first edition
1958 · New York
by Kerouac, Jack
New York: The Grove Press, 1958. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, one of a limited 100 copies specially bound and numbers, this being copy 25. Bound in publisher's original off0white speckled paper over brown spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light fading to spine and toning to edges of covers, pages toned. Kerouac's first novel to be published after the success of On The Road. It was a semi-autobiographical account of his brief romance with Alene Lee, an African American woman in Greenwich Village, New York.
(Inventory #: 140942011)