[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Jack London, influence on Jack Kerouac

[Charles Agvent]

LONDON,  JACK. THE ROAD. New York: MacMillan 1907. First  Edition.
Decorated  cloth.  Plates.  Second state of the  binding.  Prefiguring
George  Orwell's DOWN & OUT IN PARIS & LONDON, the author's insightful
look  at  the poverty and hardships of the city's homeless  influenced
Jack  Kerouac  in his writing of ON THE ROAD. Both works  feature,  as
Gerald  Nicosia  succinctly  puts  it in  his  critical  biography  of
Kerouac,  MEMORY  BABE,  a  main character  who  "prefers  running  to
fighting,  advises living in the present moment, and rejects society's
values  while  rigorously  upholding his own private moral  code"  (p.
344).  Only  5,360  copies of this important work were  printed.  This
copy  is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to Churchill Williams  and
dated  Glen Ellen, Calif. 18 Feb. 1910. Some soiling and wear. Still a
Very Good copy.                                               $2500.00

A copy sold at Pacific Book Auctions yesterday for $6000.
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