[1st ed] The Town and the City
First edition, stated, of Jack Kerouac’s debut novel, using the name John Kerouac. Published in 1950 by Harcourt, Brace, and Company. A coming-of-age novel that can be read as an essential prelude to his later classics. 8vo, 499 pages, red cloth boards with gilt lettering, topstain. Price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. Minor bumping to extremities. Some sticker residues and damages to endpapers. Some rubbing and chipping to price-clipped dj. Open tears to spine head; three 1” open tears to top edge, top corner and bottom half of front cover, not obscuring title. Retains a label from O’Malley’s Book Store, part of lower Manhattan’s famed “Book Row.”
First edition, stated, of Jack Kerouac’s debut novel, using the name John Kerouac. Published in 1950 by Harcourt, Brace, and Company. A coming-of-age novel that can be read as an essential prelude to his later classics. 8vo, 499 pages, red cloth boards with gilt lettering, topstain. Price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. Minor bumping to extremities. Some sticker residues and damages to endpapers. Some rubbing and chipping to price-clipped dj. Open tears to spine head; three 1” open tears to top edge, top corner and bottom half of front cover, not obscuring title. Retains a label from O’Malley’s Book Store, part of lower Manhattan’s famed “Book Row.”
First edition, stated, of Jack Kerouac’s debut novel, using the name John Kerouac. Published in 1950 by Harcourt, Brace, and Company. A coming-of-age novel that can be read as an essential prelude to his later classics. 8vo, 499 pages, red cloth boards with gilt lettering, topstain. Price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. Minor bumping to extremities. Some sticker residues and damages to endpapers. Some rubbing and chipping to price-clipped dj. Open tears to spine head; three 1” open tears to top edge, top corner and bottom half of front cover, not obscuring title. Retains a label from O’Malley’s Book Store, part of lower Manhattan’s famed “Book Row.”
