The Subterraneans
$1,200 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · In dust jacket
New York: Grove Press, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Jack Kerouc.. Second Printing/First Trade Edition.. 111pp. Stated second printing, considered the first trade edition following the limited, numbered edition of 100 copies. Oatmeal boards, brown titles. Mild darkening, evidence of handling. Blacked out text in small spaces on front and rear paste down, beneath jacket flap in each case. Pages evenly toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket bright and clean, with blank jacket flaps as issued. Three items laid in: one color snapshot of Kerouacs mother Gabrielle in wheelchair; one color photo of Gabrielle in wheelchair with Stella Sampas (Kerouacs third wife) and John Sampas, Kerouacs literary executor; and one original receipt from Lowell Medical Instrument Co for a wheelchair, dated 6/3/67, marked Paid Check #220 6-18-67 and initialed in ink JK. Stamp on back reads Property of the Estate of Jack Kerouac, John Sampas Executor, the Estate of Jack Kerouac. A wonderful item from estate of the most influential writer of 20th century beat literature. Size: Octavo.
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Year: 1958
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: later
- Binding: Hardcover
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