THE TOWN AND THE CITY

by John Kerouac, Jack Kerouac

$1,750 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950 . First edition stated . First printing of Kerouac's first published novel, incorporating elements of his own life and heavily fictionalized portraits of major Beat figures, an excellent copy. About fine in near-fine jacket. Item #55621 Kerouac's Thomas Wolfeian masterpiece, suffused with tragic nostalgia, grandiose family-mythology, and

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