Visions of Cody.
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0070342016
- ISBN 13
- 9780070342019
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York:: McGraw-Hill,, 1972.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in Near Fine, unclipped, dust jacket with a small crease to one corner. There is a previous owner's blank bookplate on the front pastedown. This edition is the first complete text of this posthumous road novel that Kerouac began writing in 1951. Set in the late forties and early fifties, Kerouac tells the stories of the Beats before they were so labeled, against the backdrop of lonely diners, cheap hotels, dingy bars, jazz music, and weed and wine infused nights.
Synopsis
Visions of Cody is a novel by Jack Kerouac, perhaps his most stylistically free and varied. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1973, it had by then achieved an underground reputation. Since its first printing, Visions of Cody has been published with an introduction by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg titled "The Visions of the Great Rememberer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23025
- Title
- Visions of Cody.
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0070342016
- ISBN 13
- 9780070342019
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1972.
- Keywords
- Beats
Terms of Sale
Gregor Rare Books
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About the Seller
Gregor Rare Books
Biblio member since 2007
Langley, Washington
About Gregor Rare Books
Gregor Rare Books is an open shop in the beautiful waterfront village of Langley, WA on Whidbey Island. We offer a fine selection of Distinctive Literature in the First Edition. Our shop hours are Wednesday through Sunday 10 am to 5 pm pst.
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