Jack Kerouac

1922 - 1969

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet known as a pioneer of the Beat Generation. His work is heavily influenced by jazz as seen in his style of spontaneous prose. His most notable works include The Town and the City, On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Dharma Burns, Mexico City Blues, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody, The Sea is My Brother, and Big Sur.

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Kerouac, Jack.

Typed letter signed ("Jean") in pencil, to Sebastian Sampas.

[n.p.]: Friday eve, November 1942. "I am wasting my money and my health here at Columbia...it's been one huge debauchery ... I want to go back to the sea" An outstanding early Kerouac letter to his closest friend from his formative years in Lowell, Mass, Sebastian Sampas, complaining about life..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Jean") in pencil, to Sebastian Sampas

Price: $12,500

Kerouac, Jack.

Typed letter signed ("Jack") in pencil, to Ian Macdonald.

Ozone Park, Long Island, New York: March 21, 1944, "4 A.M." "You were the only true teacher I ever had, my friend." ... Unpublished Kerouac letter. A poignant, emotionally vulnerable letter written by a 22-year-old Kerouac to Ian Macdonald, one of his close friends from his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Jack") in pencil, to Ian Macdonald

Price: $15,000

Kerouac, Jack.

Typed Letter, signed (“Jack Kerouac”), to Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review.

1418-1/2 Clouser St, Orlando, Fla: postmarked January 29, 1958. “I’ve had visions and reassurances and all kinds of wild gnostic certainties handed to me”. Kerouac writes in response to a letter from Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review (a carbon of the letter is included here), who had requested a...... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Jack Kerouac”), to Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review

Price: $9,750

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Jack Kerouac

1922 - 1969

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