[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Jack Kerouac ON THE ROAD
Charles Agvent
chagvent at ptd.net
Sat Apr 10 13:29:04 EDT 2010
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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