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Hardback, first UK edition, DJ intact, not price clipped.
'John' is in fact Jack Kerouac. His first novel.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. (Stated on the copyright page). 8vo., 499 pages. On the library table are Kelmscott works, including William Morris's The Glittering Plain and his 1895 translation of Beowulf. All the books are clearly bound in the distinctive Kelmscott full limp vellum tied with silk ribbons. The Wood Beyond the World is open to show a Morris-designed woodcut border and frontispiece. Leaning against the bookcase is a copy of the 1896 edition of Chaucer.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1951.. 500pp. 8vo. Original cloth, unevenly faded and lightly spotted. Ink stamp on upper edge. A very good copy.. First UK edition.

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]… Read More

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1951.. [6]+499pp. 8vo. Original cloth, spotting on backstrip, minor wear to head and foot of spine. Foxing and offsetting on endpapers. Spine canted, otherwise a very good copy.. First UK edition.

New York:: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, [1950]. First edition of the author's first book.. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Slight insect damage to rear pastedown, else fine, in a jacket which has a lot of insect damage to the spine.. 8vo..

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1951.. 499pp. 8vo. Original cloth in lightly chipped dustwrapper, tape erasure on inner flap. Foxing to edges and endpapers, with some offsetting. Tape marks and erasures on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy.. First UK edition.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Hardcover 1950 stated first edition, Library binding, stamps on bottom edge and endpapers and spine First novel by Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road (second novel). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1950. Softcover. Good/None. Softcover, Advance Review Copy, rose colored wraps stamped in black. Cover and next two blank pages loose from spine, spine has paper loss, exposing signatures. Still a firm binding except for cover and first two pages, clean. Record # 353164

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950. First Edition. Vellum. Very Good/good +. First edition of the beat writer's first book written under the name John Kerouac. 499 pp. Stated first edition. Small prior owner name else a clean very good copy. Gilt spine lettering bright and readable. The price-intact dustwrapper ($3.50) shows several chips and edge tears. In good condition overall.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1950. First edition stated on copyright page. Author's first book. Light wear to spine ends. Textblock tight and square. NO markings. Light water spotting to blue topstain. Jacket has large chip at base of spine approx 1" X 1". It does not affect any lettering or design. Price intact jacket ($3.50) has edgewear to both top and bottom of front panel but not significant. IN mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/VG-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. Book is bound in brick red buckram with gilt decorations and lettering. Book is fine with 499 clean pages with no marks of any kind. Dustjacket has been expertly repaired and presents as fine with the $3.50 price present. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box..

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled, toned at the spine, rubbed and with a few small closed tears at the edges and corners. Green cloth on the boards, mottled and toned at the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. A nice UK first printing of Kerouac's debut novel, originally published in the United States in 1950. In typical Kerouac fashion, it is an autobiographical work that juxtaposes life in small-town Massachusetts and big-city New York. In addition to citing critic Mark van Doren as calling Kerouac "wiser than Thomas Wolfe," it also praises the novel for including "some of the best football scenes ever written, scenes which really convey the excitement and hazards of the game.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1950. 499pp. Burgundy red boards with embossed "JK" in a square on the front panel. Prev.owner signature in black ink on the front free endpaper. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. There is light roughness to top spine edge, light creasing to the bottom edge, othewise a clean, unmarked copy. The unclipped pictorial jacket has two triangular chips on the upper spine, and chip across the bottom edge of the jacket. Unmarked photo of "John" Kerouac on the rear panel. in mylar sleeve. "Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Kerouac draws on his New England mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a vision of life.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Octavo.

Stated First Edition; A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this debut novel from the author of "On the Road" and "Big Sur"; one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century. This copy is in near fine condition showing only light rubbing to the board edges, a faint foxing to the page edges, and a previous owner's stamp to the front free paper. Housed in a clean and bright very good dust jacket that shows moderate rubbing and chipping to the spine ends, edges, and corners, a small dampstain to the top of the back panel, and a couple of short closed tears to the spine foot. Overall, a highly collectible and presentable copy; Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

NY: Harcourt Brace. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth titled in gilt, topstain. Stated first edition. Backstrip and spine ends softened. Slight rubbing to board edges. Bookplate to ffep. Faint toning to endpages from flap. Unmarked, square, sound binding. The DJ in mylar is chipped/edgeworn/lightly foxed. Flap price $3.50 intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1950], 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 3-499, [5] pp. Red cloth with Kerouac's initials in gold on the front board, and gold lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 001b. A presentable copy of Kerouac's first book. Very Good book with a few traces of wear to the bottom edges of the boards in a Very Good moderately edge-worn dust jacket with a few small areas of faint rubbing to the rear panel.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. A Fine, bright copy of the book with dark blue top-stain. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with some chips at tears at the spine and a faint dampstain, mostly visible from the verso. Slight chip on the rear panel close to the portrait of Kerouc. This work was heavily influenced by the writing of Tom Wolfe and intensely edited. The following year Kerouac would write his second novel, On the Road, marking a dramatic shift in writing style to the quintessential voice of Beat literature. An interesting first novel from one of the most important and influential writers to come out of the mid-twentieth century. "In this big, rambling first novel, Kerouac tells of a Massachusetts family that is gradually dissolved by the recent war, the forces of modern life and the passage of time... a rough diamond of a book" (Contemporary New York Times Review). Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1950. F First Edition Stated Collectible. H Hardcover. Very Good+. In pictoiral blue, red and green jacket over red cloth with gilt spine and upper cover titling, 8vo, 499pp. A nice copy with price of $3.50 intact on jacket flap & Author's portrait on jacket rear panel. A stated First Edition of John [Jack] Kerouac's first book published in 1950. A landmark publication by perhaps the most famous author of the Beat Generation chronicling, perhaps semi-biographically, a Milltown family from Massachussetts who leave for the city during the Great War and return home after to digest the difficulties now apparent between generations. (jacket bright with minor light edgewear, small nick at lower spine tip and a short tear (1in.) to the rear panel at the upper edge).

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 499pp. Beige cloth lettered in red at the spine. Backstrip and upper edges of the boards lightly spotted. Endpapers partially browned and with some additional light spotting which also impacts several preliminary and (blank) concluding leaves. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Stein, with just a touch of spotting and tanning, several tiny closed tears and several slivers of loss from the spine panel ends. First published by Harcourt Brace in the US in March 1950, this distinctly more uncommon UK edition followed a year later. The novel was not a success: it was trashed by a number of reviewers, Kerouac's royalties did not exceed his advance of $1,000 and it was six years before the publication of his next novel, 'On the Road'..