Big Sur

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 241 pages. In Good condition with Good dust jacket. White spine with blue and black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has tearing to spine edges, chipping to corners and edges of both covers, damp staining to inside and outside of both covers,… Read more about this item

Pages a little age toned. Book never opened. Spine tight. Text unmarked. Great opening by Kerouac denouncing his publishers for not letting him use the same name for his characters. Claims one day he'll put all his books into one big book called "Legend of Duluoz" Rave blurbs on both front and back. Corners pointed./illustration of Keroauc… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 241 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has foxing to inside and outside of dust jacket, chipping to spine edges, and minor edge and shelf wear. Textblock has light foxing to endpapers and… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Books, 2001. In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to… Read more about this item

McGraw Hill, New York, c. 1990. 2nd trade paperback printing of the 2nd edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover. "Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. First edition in very good condition with cover design by Signum. Showing original price of 18 shillings on jacket's inner front flap. Jacket is in clear plastic protective cover. Foxing to page block and a few minor scuffs and marks on plastic covering and jacket. Small stamp mark on BEP and… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue marble-affect boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint tape stains to endsheets and top and bottom edges of boards, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, light toning and light… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A lovely copy of the book. Just about Fine, with a few spots to the lower edge of the closed text block and a touch of sunning to the top-stain. In a Near Fine jacket with only trivial wear and discoloration to the jacket. "In… Read more about this item

0 First U.K. edition/First printing published by Andre Deutsch, London 1963. VG clean and tight condition. Owner's name and 1963 date to ffep. No other marks or inscriptions. Mild spotting to page edges. Very clean and bright Blue cloth covers. Dustjacket not price clipped (18s net) Minor wear with mild creasing to edges and slight fading to spine. Protected… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Penguin Books. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1992. 21st Printing. Trade Paperback. Series: Duluoz Legend; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages; Trade size paperback rubbed at edges, spine ends and corner tips. Creased at front cover hinge. Book solid and tight. Text block clean and pages tight but beginning to … Read more about this item

NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-titled cloth-backed marbled boards, faded blue topstain. First printing stated. Trace shelfwear to board edges, slight sunning to spine ends, slight soil to edge. PO name stamped. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is mildly rubbed/soiled; interior… Read more about this item

A FINE FIRST EDITION IN NEAR FINE DJ. owner's stamp on the fep.

NY: Farrar, 1962. First Edition. 8vo, A near fine copy in a very slightly soiled dj, not price clipped. Charters A17a. An ambivalent `King of the Beats,' Kerouac returns to San Francisco on a search for peace and solace. This mature novel shows some of the Kerouac's finest prose.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy,, 1962. First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's "comeback" novel, a stark depiction of the self-destructive trajectory of his life after the success of On the Road. "Craving both solitude and genuine companionship, his fictional counterpart Jack Duluoz careens from the retreat of a cabin at Big Sur to San Francisco's North Beach… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy,, 1962. First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's "comeback" novel, a stark depiction of the self-destructive trajectory of his life after the success of On the Road. "Craving both solitude and genuine companionship, his fictional counterpart Jack Duluoz careens from the retreat of a cabin at Big Sur to San Francisco's North Beach… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. First printing.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. [American literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14 cm), pp.241. Publisher's blue hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced 18s. A fine copy of the book with some loose associated news-clippings tucked in. Bright jacket has some remnants of tape strips along top and lower edges. Shows well. This novel chronicles the events surrounding… Read more about this item

Paperback. Very Good.

Andre Deutsch, 1963. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Andre Deutsch: London, 1963. Sm 8vo. 241 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering to the spine. Orange, clipped jacket. First UK edition. Light foxing to the edges; jacket has light wear to the extremities and a moderately faded spine. One of 3,000 copies in the first edition. Ref:… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1981. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 241 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings..