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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
1959
Andre Deutsch : London
7.5" by 5"
[4], 310pp.
SUMMARY
A bright third impression of Jack Kerouac's iconic semi-autobiographical novel in the original unclipped dust wrapper.
Early Edition,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Near Fine
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
Canada/US Postage: £ 15.99
EU Postage: £ 13.99
European Postage: £ 14.99
Asia Postage: £ 18.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 19.99
DESCRIPTION
The first UK edition, third impression of this work, published the year following the first edition. Jack Kerouac's post-war Beat and Counterculture generation defining work based on the author's own travels around the US.
The novel takes place against a background of jazz, poetry, and drug use, and features many cultural key figures such as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper.
CONDITION
In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped with minor shelf wear, sunned to spine, minor tape repair to extremity front fly leaf. Ink inscription to introduction, undated. Light minor odd spotting to fore edge only affecting endpapers lightly, pages otherwise bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Near Fine
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
We only sell books in this condition where their rarity or value makes them
attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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