The Subterraneans

by Jack Kerouac

$1,250 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

New York: Grove Press, 1958. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 111pp. Illustrated black and grey dust jacket with white lettering on the front cover and spine, as issued. Off-white cloth boards, with brown lettering on the front cover and spine. A first edition, second printing of Kerouac's third published novel novella . The story was inspired by the author's passionate but brief romance Alene Lee

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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