The Dharma Bums.

by KEROUAC, Jack.

$1,014 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: The Viking Press,, 1958. First edition. The novel outlines "the equipment and attitudes it took to live Kerouac's way, including both the spiritual equipment [Zen Buddhism] as well as ordinary equipment like prosaic tents and Oakland store sleeping bags" (Charters, p. 270). Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in blue, silver, and green, front cover lettered in green. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped; jacket rubbed, extremities lightly nicked with a couple of short closed tears, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket. Charters A4a. Ann Charters, Kerouac: A Biography, 1994.

• Year: 1958
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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