KEROUAC, Jack.
Rare books by Jack Kerouac, including first edition and signed first edition copies of On the Road, Doctor Sax, and Excerpts From Visions of Cody.
KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road.New York : 1957
First edition of the defining work of Beat literature, Kerouac's masterpiece and the work which propelled him from an obscure writer to "King of the Beats".Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. The Town and the City.New York : 1950
First edition of the author's first major work. This copy is from the collection of the publishing couple Selma Shapiro and Jim Silberman, who met while working at Random House, where he was an editor and she was the vice-president of publicity. Their book label is loosely inserted.Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity.New York : 1960
First edition, with the purple design by Jesse Sorentino to the front cover and priced at 95 cents on rear. This volume contains 66 poems by Kerouac, originally written in 1956, reflecting on Buddhist philosophy.
Kerouac writes, "I wrote it in Locke McCorkle's shack in Mill Valley. He's Sean Monahan in The Dharma Bums. In Pencil, carefully...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Mexico City Blues.New York : 1959
First edition of Kerouac's long jazz poem, written between 1954 and 1957. The work exemplifies Kerouac's spontaneous prose style, his Buddhist faith, and his struggles as a writer. The critic Robert Hipkiss described the poem as "a refusal of rules of creation and a celebration, in the act, of the spontaneity inherent in creativity"...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road.New York : 1957
First edition of the defining work of Beat literature, propelling Kerouac from an obscure writer to "King of the Beats". He later explained, "Dean and I were embarked on a journey through post-Whitman America to FIND that America and to FIND the inherent goodness in American man. [We were] roaming the country in search of God. And we found...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Mexico City Blues.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's first book of poems. This is a review copy, with the publisher's review slip and a copy of the subsequent and gently damning review loosely inserted. The anonymous reviewer has underlined several lines of text and pencilled their notes to the rear blank. Kerouac's "242 Choruses", were written between...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Excerpts from Visions of Cody.New York : 1959
First edition, sole printing, number 125 of 750 copies signed by the author, in the original acetate jacket and with the publisher's promotional insert. This 128-page excerpt of Visions of Cody spawned from Kerouac's revisions to On the Road (1957) and presents a character study of that novel's hero, Dean Moriarty, renamed here Cody Pomeray due to...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack (his copy) - GENET, Jean. Œuvres Complètes.[Paris] : 1953
First edition thus, first printing, Jack Kerouac's copy, with his estate's ink and blind stamps on the half-title. Genet's controversial work was suppressed in Britain and America, but "the Beats passed around a smuggled translation of the forbidden Miracle of the Rose and declared Genet their pulp poet. His exquisite beauty, his affirmation of...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Archive of unpublished letters from Kerouac to Robert Giroux, with related materials.1949-55
A recently uncovered archive of unpublished correspondence between Kerouac and his editor-mentor Robert Giroux, spanning 22 May 1949 to 26 April 1955, traces Kerouac's evolution from an anxious debut novelist awaiting publication of The Town and the City to an established author attempting to renew a strained friendship. The letters offer an...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. "Visions of Gerard" - galley proofs from the estate of Robert Giroux.Three galley proofs for the first edition of Kerouac's fictionalized tale of his childhood, from the estate of Robert Giroux, the father-figure publisher who launched his career. The "Readers first proof" has approximately 12 manuscript corrections by Kerouac; all three - the "Readers First Proof", the "Marked Set", and the "Final Proof" - have...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. "On the Road" - an early copy of the original scroll.[c.1972]
Robert Giroux's personal copy of the famous scroll of Kerouac's masterpiece; this is likely the first ever reproduction of the 120-foot-long work. Giroux was Kerouac's first editor and the first person to whom Kerouac offered On the Road - he was also the first person to turn it down. It was eventually published by Viking in 1957.
On the...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. The Dharma Bums.New York : 1958
First edition, first printing. The novel outlines "the equipment and attitudes it took to live Kerouac's way, including both the spiritual equipment [Zen Buddhism] as well as ordinary equipment like prosaic tents and Oakland store sleeping bags" (Charters, p. 270).Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Pull My Daisy.New York : 1961
First edition, first printing, signed "Allen Ginsberg, Cambridge, 2/8/85" underneath a monochrome still of himself and Gregory Corso, the latter playing a flute. This is a review copy, with the Grove Press compliments slip loosely inserted.
Shot on 16mm black and white film in Leslie's loft studio in New York City, Pull My Daisy is a short...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Pull My Daisy.New York : 1961
First edition, first printing. Shot on 16mm black and white film in Leslie's loft studio in New York City, Pull My Daisy is a short film adapted by Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. Kerouac provides improvised narration, and Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky appear as themselves.Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Pull My Daisy.New York : 1961
First edition, first printing, signed by Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky by a photograph of Corso and the film's two directors, Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie; additionally inscribed by Orlovsky "Good meditation to you 6/22/84".
Shot on 16mm black and white film in Leslie's loft studio in New York City, Pull My Daisy is a...Learn More
KEROUAC, Jack. Excerpts from Visions of Cody.New York : 1959
First edition, sole printing, number 613 of 750 copies signed by the author, here retaining the original acetate jacket. This 128-page excerpt of Visions of Cody spawned from Kerouac's revisions to On the Road (1957) and presents a character study of that novel's hero, Dean Moriarty, renamed here Cody Pomeray due to copyright restrictions, though...Learn More
