Satori in Paris Presentation copy

by Jack Kerouac

$25,000 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1966. First edition. Inscribed on the upper free endpaper: “Jack Kerouac gives this copy to Judge Phillipe Boudreau.” Judge Boudreau officiated Kerouac’s wedding to Stella Sampas, which was rushed to allow the author’s aging mother to attend the ceremony. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. The book has a faint dampstain on the front and rear

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