London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1960. First British Edition, First Printing in Second Issue Dust Jacket. Hardcover. "The author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums usually chooses to cover a large canvas, to give a great panorama of the Subterranean (or Beatnik) way of life. In this novel he does something different. He focuses sharply on one incident: the love of Leo and Mardou. It is a fierce, sweet..... More
[Item #3365]
New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1970. Third Printing (First Hardcover Edition Thus). Hardcover. "Doctor Sax is a story of awakening youth in a grey, colorless New England mill town. It is the story of Jack Duluoz, like Kerouac himself a French-Canadian, growing up among the shadowy doorways and brown tenements of Lowell, Mass. Above all, it is the story of the mystery and terror of an intensely felt adolescence...Always..... More
[Item #3360]
New York, NY: The New American Library/ Signet Books, 1958. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Wild drives across America...buying cars, wrecking cars, stealing cars, dumping cars, picking up girls, making love, all-night drinking bouts, jazz joints, wild parties, hot spots...This is the odyssey of the Beat Generation, the frenetic young men and their women restlessly racing from New York to San Francisco, from Mexico to New Orleans in a frantic search-..... More
[Item #3352]
Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., 1959-1960. First Printings. Softcovers. Here are all five contiguous issues of one of the most important literary journals ever published: Big Table. A legendary response to censure & censorship by the mid-twentieth century American academic-literary establishment, Big Table was conceived by Irving Rosenthal, the editor of the prestigious Chicago Review. Issues of the review published in 1958 featured writings & excerpts by Jack Kerouac &..... More
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