[Rarebooks] FS: On Jack Kerouac's 91st birthday, a SIGNED copy of ON THE ROAD

[Charles Agvent]

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. (#014877)        $20,000.00

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