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.
Price: $1,750
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1958. First British edition, second impression. The first British edition of Kerouac's iconic novel of travel, adventure, and self-discovery, which had been released in the United States the previous year. Featuring a pictorial dust jacket by the author Len Deighton, who, prior to embarking on his..... Read More Item Details for On the Road Add to Wish List
Item #369494
Price: $12,000
November 18, 1963. An unpublished letter from Kerouac to Giroux that opens with his query about the status of poet Phillip Whalen's book, stating that Whalen was "...wondering what you're doing with his Collected Poems manuscript. If you can't publish them, would you mail them back to him (since you..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed ("Jack" in type), to editor Robert Giroux ("Dear Bob") Add to Wish List
Item #369113
Price: $500
New York; London: Grove Press; Evergreen Books, [1961]. First edition. An Evergreen Original. Nice copy of the paperback original based on the cult Beat film, Pull My Daisy, with the title song by Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and illustrated with stills from the film. The film is narrated in..... Read More Item Details for Pull My Daisy. Text ad-libbed by Jack Kerouac for the film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. Introduction by Jerry Tallmer Add to Wish List
Item #366139
Price: $1,250
New Orleans, Tuscon: Loujon Press, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969. First editions. An excellent set of The Outsider, an important literary magazine founded in New Orleans, and distinguished by elaborate graphic design and a broad reach: "Jon and Lou’s magazine was attractive to poets and authors for its high quality –..... Read More Item Details for The Outsider 1-5 (Complete Run) Add to Wish List
Item #365983
Price: $800
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Read More Item Details for On the Road Add to Wish List
Item #267027