On the Road
- New York: The Viking Press, 1957
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good. A Very Good+ copy with the spine titles a bit rubbed, but internal contents generally clean. In a Very Good first issue jacket. Jacket with several small tape repairs to the verso, minor edgewear and creasing to the extremities and a small stain to the lower portion of the front flap.
"It changed my life like it changed everyone else's," Bob Dylan said of On The Road. Jack Kerouac’s classic Roman A Clef, published in 1957, was the defining work of the beat generation. It follows the travels of Sal Paradise, a stand in for Kerouac himself, and is based on a series of journeys Kerouac took from 1947 to 1950. The work was typed up on a continuous “scroll” of sheets that Kerouac had taped together. On The Road appears on both Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels of the century and on Time Magazine list of the 100 best English language novels from 1923-2005. “[I]ts publication is a historic occasion… the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is” (Contemporary New York Times review). Very Good + in Very Good dust jacket.
"It changed my life like it changed everyone else's," Bob Dylan said of On The Road. Jack Kerouac’s classic Roman A Clef, published in 1957, was the defining work of the beat generation. It follows the travels of Sal Paradise, a stand in for Kerouac himself, and is based on a series of journeys Kerouac took from 1947 to 1950. The work was typed up on a continuous “scroll” of sheets that Kerouac had taped together. On The Road appears on both Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels of the century and on Time Magazine list of the 100 best English language novels from 1923-2005. “[I]ts publication is a historic occasion… the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is” (Contemporary New York Times review). Very Good + in Very Good dust jacket.