KEROUAC, Jan.

£450 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Trainsong. First edition, first printing, accompanied by a loosely inserted autograph letter signed by the author, the daughter of Jack Kerouac, and containing a particularly poignant remark: "Dear Dan,... I'm glad you were entertained by my books. Hope you'll like the one I'm working on now - Parrot Fever". That title, published posthumously in 2000, was left unfinished at her death.The letter is written on one side of a single sheet dated 17 May 1988. Trainsong is the second of her three semi-autobiographical novels.

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