The Town and the City Signed first edition

by Jack Kerouac, John Kerouac

$9,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Signed John Kerouac to upper free endpaper – an early example of Kerouac's signature, before he began signing as Jack. The Town and the City was the only book he published under the name John Kerouac, and the only one he signed as such. A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Dark blue

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