The Novels of Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City, On the Road, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Tristessa, Book of Dreams, Big Sur, Visions of Gerard, Desolation Angels
$19,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
New York/San Francisco: Harcourt, Brace and Company/The Viking Press/Grove Press, Inc./Avon Book Division/City Lights Books/Farrar, Straus and Cudahy/Farrar, Straus and Company/Coward-McCann, Inc, 1950-1967. First editions of each of Jack Kerouac's novels. Octavo, thirteen volumes bound in full black levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. A completely unique and desirable set of the legendary Beat prose-poet's collected novels. Jack Kerouac stands as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature, celebrated for his pioneering role in the Beat Generation and his radical reinvention of the American novel. His spontaneous prose style, rooted in jazz rhythms and spiritual yearning, broke from conventional narrative structures and captured the restless energy of postwar America. Kerouac’s most iconic work, On the Road, became a cultural touchstone for its raw depiction of freedom, rebellion, and the search for meaning across the American landscape. Alongside this seminal novel, books such as The Dharma Bums, Visions of Gerard, and Desolation Angels further develop what he called the Duluoz Legend —a semi-fictionalized chronicle of his own life that blends autobiography, myth, and mysticism. Through
- Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company/The Viking Press/Grove Press, Inc./Avon Book Division/City Lights Books/Farrar, Straus and Cudahy/Fa
- Year: 1950
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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