KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. London: Andre Deutsch. 1959. 8vo. Third impression of the British edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the superb dust jacket designed by Len Deighton. A sharp example, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt a touch dulled. The binding tight and square, the contents mostly fine, some light spots to textblock top edge and occasional singular spots to endpapers. No inscriptions or stamps. The dust jacket unclipped (15s net), with closed tears to spine head and tail made discreet by the busy design, else a clean and sharp copy, the jacket usually quite ragged but here quite vibrant in mylar.
Kerouac’s most famous novel and one of the cornerstone texts of the Beat Generation—the required text, in fact; mystical, prophetic, picaresque, set amid and against the sprawling landscape of America inspired by the improvisational fluidity of jazz. A highlight of modern firsts collecting in the splendid dust jacket by Deighton, produced before he found his own fame as an author.
KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. London: Andre Deutsch. 1959. 8vo. Third impression of the British edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the superb dust jacket designed by Len Deighton. A sharp example, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt a touch dulled. The binding tight and square, the contents mostly fine, some light spots to textblock top edge and occasional singular spots to endpapers. No inscriptions or stamps. The dust jacket unclipped (15s net), with closed tears to spine head and tail made discreet by the busy design, else a clean and sharp copy, the jacket usually quite ragged but here quite vibrant in mylar.
Kerouac’s most famous novel and one of the cornerstone texts of the Beat Generation—the required text, in fact; mystical, prophetic, picaresque, set amid and against the sprawling landscape of America inspired by the improvisational fluidity of jazz. A highlight of modern firsts collecting in the splendid dust jacket by Deighton, produced before he found his own fame as an author.
