A SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF JACK KEROUAC’S FIRST BOOK ‘THE TOWN AND THE CITY’
Item Description: New York: Harcourt Brace And Company. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1950. Cranberry red cloth boards stamped in gilt at spine and front cover, in dark blue, brown and green dustjacket. SIGNED in blue ballpoint pen “Jack Kerouac” on front free end page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An extremely rare and desirable copy in lovely condition , rarer still as it is unincribed.
The novel is focused on two locations (as suggested by the title): one, the early Beat Generation circle of New York in the late 1940s, the other, the nearly rural small town of Galloway, Massachusetts, that the main character comes from, before going off to college on a football scholarship.