The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac

$450 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1958. Beat Novel FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp. 8 ; 244; 4 . Publisher's black cloth with titles in green and silver. Top edge light green. With the dust-jacket designed by Bill English, priced at 3.95. With occasional light marginal pencil marks. Light bumping to cloth. Jacket rubbed, with bruises and chips to edges, as well as a few creases and closed tears. Very good. Published a year after 'On the Road,'

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