On the Road.

by KEROUAC, Jack.

$8,891 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: The Viking Press,, 1957. Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me First edition of the defining work of Beat literature, Kerouac's masterpiece and the work which propelled him from an obscure writer to "King of the Beats". Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, top edge red. With dust jacket. Spine ends just bumped, tiny spots of wear at lower corners; jacket unclipped, a little creasing and rubbing at extremities, nicks to top edges, short closed tear at foot of rear flap: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Charters A2.

• Year: 1957
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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