The Dharma Bums
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Bridgeville, California, United States
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About This Item
Viking (1958), 1958. First Edition, published a year after the success of On The Road, the book captures Kerouac's buddhist leanings where Jack realized it's 'impossible to fall off a mountain'. DJ rubs and chips. Still, a very presentable copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good.
Synopsis
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet, essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- A Gyenis (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 457
- Title
- The Dharma Bums
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking (1958)
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Modern First, Beat Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Beat Books;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...