[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, published 55 years ago today

[Charles Agvent]

KEROUAC, Jack. ON THE ROAD. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First 
Edition. The longtime reigning champ of Beat Literature, with the many 
hints of it being turned into a film over the years finally realized 
with the movie to be released this December. A significantly 
above-average copy of a significant book that still resonates with many 
of its readers more than fifty years after its initial publication. The 
book is like new with a small ticket from a California bookstore on the 
lower front pastedown, a habit of new bookstores that more or less died 
in the 1960s. The first issue dustwrapper is complete with a hardly 
noticeable closed half-inch tear to the top of the front and a slightly 
longer and jagged closed tear to the bottom rear which has mild soiling. 
Only mild sunning to the spine which has very light wear to the tips but 
no chipping. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. (#012977)        $6,000.00

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