Rimbaud. by KEROUAC, Jack - 1960

Author: Jack Kerouac.Title: RIMBAUD.Publisher: San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1960. First edition, First printing with 35c price. (Charters A14). One of the 2,000 scarce printed copies.Language: Text in English.Size: 5 " X 5 ".Pages: 1 fold page.Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine folded broadside (25 x 5 inches) printed in black on yellow paper, recto and verso (edges and corners fine - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.Content: Very good, near fine content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown).
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The book: Scarce remaining copy in a beautiful condition of this wonderful 202 line poem by Jack Kerouac about the symbolist French poet Arthur Rimbaud printed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights in a fold-out format. It first appeared in Yugen no. 6 earlier in the same year.

San Francisco: City Lights Books,, 1960. First edition, first printing (priced 35c), one of 2,000 copies printed and now quite scarce. This 202-line poem by Kerouac about the proto-beat French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was printed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights in their fold-out format. "Rimbaud" first appeared in Yugen no. 6 earlier the same year. Rimbaud was the gold standard for the kind of poets the Beats wanted to be. Sal Paradise in On the Road tries to encourage Dean "that he can do anything... become the greatest poet since Rimbaud". Broadside folded in fifths (128 x 130 mm). Yellow paper printed in black. Folds lightly toned, a near-fine copy of an ephemeral work. Charters A14.