[Rarebooks] FS: Advance Copy of Jack Kerouac's First Book

[Charles Agvent]

KEROUAC, John: THE TOWN AND THE CITY
Harcourt Brace New York (1950) First Edition.  Advance Review Copy in 
printed wraps, and the only advance copy as there was no proof for this 
title, of Kerouac's first book, one of the more important literary 
debuts of the latter half of the twentieth century.  Slight wear at head 
of spine.  Near Fine and scarce.     $1500.00
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