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The Town and the City
by Kerouac, John (Jack)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Beige coloured cloth covered boards with red coloured titles to the backstrip. The first novel of Jack Kerouac, using his more unfamiliar original name. A coming of age story, where the protagonist is grieving over the death of his father and gripped with the determination to write the great American novel. Softening and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners will. the underlying board is visible to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel. Uneven fading to the front panel and sunning to the backstrip. Foxing to the backstrip and to the textblock edges and to the internal pages, most particularly noticeable to the endpapers. White patch to the rear book panel. Offset tanning to the endpapers and some stains to the top textblock edge. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 3-499, [5] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Beat Writer; Inventory No: 0114990. .
Synopsis
The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the first major work published by Kerouac, who later became famous for his second novel On the Road (1957). Like all of Jack Kerouac's major works, The Town and the City is essentially an autobiographical novel, though less directly so than most of his other works.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0114990
- Title
- The Town and the City
- Author
- Kerouac, John (Jack)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Beat Novel, Jack Kerouac -- Novelist -- American, Literature & Literary; Beat Writer; Unbranded Kerouac, John (Jack) The Town and the City
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Jacket
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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