[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED First Edition of Jack London's THE ROAD

[Charles Agvent]

LONDON, JACK. THE ROAD. New York: MacMillan, 1907. First Edition. 
Decorated cloth. Second state of the binding. Illustrated with 48 
full-page plates. 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 and an excellent buy.   (#005149)        $2,500.00

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