[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Jack Kerouac: ON THE ROAD

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 exceptional books from our new Spring Catalog just posted on 
our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
Also included are a bevy of Signed Presidential books (J. Q. Adams, Van 
Buren, Buchanan, Fillmore, Cleveland, Taft, McKinley, Wilson, both 
Roosevelts, Eisenhower family copies, Kennedy, etc.), wonderful letters 
by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Virginia Woolf, a McKenney and Hall 
INDIAN TRIBES folio volume, a 1609 hand-colored herbal, a 1621 edition 
of Agricola's DE RE METALLICA with wonderful woodcuts, early baseball 
and aviation, scarce signed modern first editions, and more.

KEROUAC,  Jack.  ON THE ROAD. New York: The Viking Press  1957.  First
Edition.  Third Printing in a Third Printing dustwrapper BUT INSCRIBED
and  SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To  Don---/from/Jack
Kerouac/I'm  really  happy/that you came to the/party Henri threw  for
me!"  Henri  was  one  of Kerouac's oldest  friends,  Henri  Cru,  the
character  Remi  Boncoeur  in ON THE ROAD. (Some years ago  we  sold a
copy  of  this  book  inscribed  to  Henri  as  "my  best  friend"  by
Kerouac.).  We have not been able to identify Don, though it very well
may  be Don Uhl, a friend of Neal Cassady's from Colorado, who appears
as  Ed  Wall  in  ON THE ROAD. Except for one book  signing  event  in
Denver  for his first book, THE TOWN AND THE CITY, Kerouac did not  do
promotional  signings  for  any  of his books. When ON  THE  ROAD  was
published,  Kerouac  was so overwhelmed by the publicity that he  went
into  self-imposed  exile  with his  mother.  Consequently,  inscribed
copies  of  any printing of this, his most important book,  are  rare.
The  heavyweight champ of Beat Literature, with many hints of it being
turned  into a film but none realized as of yet. Both the book and the
dustwrapper  are bright and fresh, with a few very short closed  tears
to  the  top  of  the dustwrapper. Fine in a  Near  Fine  dustwrapper.
                                                             $20,000.00

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