THE TOWN AND THE CITY - JACKSON MAC LOW'S COPIES FIRST TRADE AND ADVANCE , TOGETHER WITH A TLS FROM THE PUBLISHER

by Jack Kerouac

$5,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First Edition. The author's first novel, written between 1947-48 in Queens where he lived with his mother and father. The present copies belonged to poet Jackson Mac Low. Laid into the advance copy is a TLS from the publishers addressed to Miss Maclow the painter Iris Lezak, who Mac Low would later marry , dated two months prior to publication with contents somewhat prophetic in

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