Jack Kerouac : a chicken essay By Victor Levy - Beaulieu
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1975. rare broadside / poster advertizing the release of the book - 15 x 22 inches - front image is the famous Kerouac / A.G. - Morningside Heights photo and the verso 17 photos of Kerouac and various friends & family dating from college to near death - has pin holes in corners, minor rumpling mainly at corners - still, an attractive copy of a poster that is rare as there was no American edition or any other - this was my original ad poster in my Toronto store when the book came out 38 years ago I've not had another - shipped rolled. First Edition. Broadside / Poster. Very Good. Illus. by 18 Photographs. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.
Synopsis
Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road , The Dharma Bums , Big Sur , and Visions of Cody . Ann Charters is the editor of The Portable Sixties Reader , The Portable Jack Kerouac , two volumes of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters , and Beat Down to Your Soul . She teaches at the University of Connecticut.
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- Bookseller
- Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15249
- Title
- Jack Kerouac : a chicken essay By Victor Levy - Beaulieu
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Illustrator
- 18 Photographs
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Coach House Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Broadside Poster Jack Kerouac Beat Literature Alan Ginsberg
- Bookseller catalogs
- Beat/Sixties/Counter-culture;
- Size
- Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall
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About the Seller
Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Port Colborne, Ontario
About Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB
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- Folio
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- Verso
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- Rolled
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- First Edition
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