Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana - and Jack Kerouac's typescript scroll of On the Road and the Oxford 1922 edition of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom - Tuesday, 22 May 2001

New York: Christie's, 2001. Paperback. 318p., the usual high-end format from this auction house, profusely illustrated with exhibit and collectable photographs (in color), a humdinger of a catalogue, Christie's top dollar bought a lot of book. The Kerouac item is talked up extensively, given six pages of photos plus a color frontispiece of the scroll unrolled like a Star Wars titling. Beautifully done, unmolested condition: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. (Inventory #: 323769)