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"You got eyes": Rare First Edition of the Famed Photographers First Book The Americans
FRANK, ROBERT; INTRODUCTION BY JACK KEROUAC.
The Americans.
New York: Grove Press 1959.
First edition of the photographer’s masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 144599
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
KEROUAC, JACK.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press 1957.
First edition of Kerouac’s classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Bill English. A sharp example.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 144208
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Advance Review Copy of The First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City
KEROUAC, JACK.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1950.
Advance Review Copy of the first edition of Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. many of his works. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143084
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"Because the only people for me are the mad ones": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
KEROUAC, JACK.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press 1957.
First edition of Kerouac’s classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a closed tear and light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Bill English. A nice example.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 142335
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"Thanks for driving me home in your Buick in '32, and for your friendship to my father": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City; Lengthily inscribed by Him
KEROUAC, JACK.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1950.
First edition of the Jack Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jack Kerouac To Judge Eno- belated Thanks for driving me home in your Buick in ’32, and for your friendship to my father-.” The recipient, Judge Eno was the father of Kerouac’s close friend Arthur Eno who were classmates at St. Joseph’s School. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional inscription, rare and desirable.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 139281
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City
KEROUAC, JACK.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1950.
First edition of Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 138596
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"Because the only people for me are the mad ones": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
KEROUAC, JACK.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press 1957.
First edition of Kerouac’s classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a bright very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill English. With the original New York Times article for On the Road laid in. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A sharp example.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 136101
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“All that hitchhikin All that railroadin All that comin back to America”: FIRST EDITION OF JACK KEROUACS Lonesome Traveler; Signed by Him
KEROUAC, JACK; DRAWINGS BY LARRY RIVERS.
Lonesome Traveler.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1960.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth, drawings by Larry Rivers. Boldly signed by Jack Kerouac on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed, this is the first example we have seen.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 114572
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City; Signed by him and close childhood friend in Lowell, Massachusetts, Charles Dudevoir
KEROUAC, JACK.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1950.
First edition of Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by Kerouac on the front free endpaper and with the ownership name of his close childhood friend and neighbor in Lowell, Massachusetts, Charles Dudevoir. With a note of provenance signed by Charles Dudevoir’s granddaughter which reads in part, “Phil – my mother lived in Lowell when she was young – Irene Dudevoir – Her dad, Charles + mother, Martha knew Keroauc… Thanks! Melinda” and a very detailed three-page typed letter of provenance which reads in part, “I bought this book from a very well known dealer out here in California in ’97. His name is Jerry Melon… The Kerouac is a very good signature from him as he frequently signed just ‘Jack’ or JK… there are a few formal copies of the ‘Town’ signed ‘John Kerouac’ but a full fledged Jack Kerouac on any book is very rare… I believe the [inset from the granddaughter of Charles Dudevoir] was written to Phil Chaput, a local Lowell dealer who handled many Kerouac estate items along with Jeffrey Weinberg of Waterrow books. Jeffrey Weinberg… in fact lived right across the street from the Kerouacs house and told me that Joe Dudevoir used to mow his lawn and Kerouac’s lawn. Charles died in the 1950s according to his daughter-in-law… if you look up the family name ‘Dudevoir’ on Yahoo people search, you’ll see the name appears locally all over the Lowell Mass area… and in few other places. I actually called a few Lowell Dudevoir phone numbers back in ’97 and reached an elderly woman who said Charles Dudevoir was her deceased father-in-law and that he had been a very well known and well liked town resident in Lowell. He sounded like one of the classic boisterous back slapping ‘Canuks’ that Kerouac wrote about in the book.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed ‘Jack Kerouac’ and with noted provenance from his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 134655