Big Sur
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0140168125
- ISBN 13
- 9780140168129
- Seller
-
Odessa, Texas, United States
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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 yellow. .
Synopsis
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac that recounts the time when the author (called by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) visited a cabin in Big Sur owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Duluoz stayed for a few days, struggling through a nervous breakdown complicated by alcoholism.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ye Old Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16573
- Title
- Big Sur
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- 21st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140168125
- ISBN 13
- 9780140168129
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Fiction, Literature, Classic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic;
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- Tight
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Trade Paperback
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- Jacket
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....