Big Sur
by Jack Kerouac
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$12.80$10.24
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About This Item
London: Four Square, 1965 Book. Fair. Soft cover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Novel set in the author's stay in a cabin in Big Sur, California, dealing with his declining mental health and drinking. 200pp. Creasing to spine, front panel and corners, marking to edges and foxing to endpapers, edges and margins, otherwise fair/good copy with no insxriprions..
Synopsis
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac that recounts the time when the author (called by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) visited a cabin in Big Sur owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Duluoz stayed for a few days, struggling through a nervous breakdown complicated by alcoholism.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015617
- Title
- Big Sur
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Four Square
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...