Hanuman Books, September 1987. Paper Back. #9 Hanuman Books release., Paperback in jacket. 64mo (miniature). Dustjacket has edgewear around pictorial front panel & darkening to spine & back panel. There is a loose thread in binding but it remains sound. More
Viking Adult, August 2007. Hardcover. Legions of youthful Americans have taken "On the Road" as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In "Why Kerouac Matters," John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion..... More
Riverhead Trade, September 1995. Trade Paperback. The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature (Time)--now in a new edition Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life--the period that led up..... More
Riverhead Trade, September 1995. Trade Paperback. The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature (Time)--now in a new edition Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life--the period that led up..... More
Penguin, February 1991. Trade Paperback. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential..... More
Grove, 1970. Trade Paperback. In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story of the years when he was writing the books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 1993. Trade Paperback. When someone asks 'Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night listening with eyes and ears. A night of a thousand years. Heard it in the womb, heard it in the cradle, heard it in school, heard it..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 1993. Trade Paperback. When someone asks 'Where does [Kerouac] get that stuff?' say: 'From you!' He lay awake all night listening with eyes and ears. A night of a thousand years. Heard it in the womb, heard it in the cradle, heard it in school, heard it..... More
Penguin Classics, October 2016. Trade Paperback. Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For..... More
The ultimate beat tome and the book largely responsible for me landing on these shores. An entirely different American dream. Jack and Neal were hipsters before it was a dirty word. Essential.
Viking Press, 1957. Hardcover. Second printing. Binding is square. Black cloth binding is faintly stained, front and back. Jacket is chipped and a bit stained, with paper loss at spine extremities and folds. Still, a solid, attractive copy of this early printing of one of the most collected works of..... More
Penguin Classics, January 2003. Trade Paperback. The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, a sideburned hero of the snowy West. As Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty..... More
Signet, September 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Grove Press, January 1988. Trade Paperback. Heavy edgewear to covers. Curling. Dog-earred lower corners. Text is without markings, underlining, & notations. More
Grove Press, August 1989. Trade Paperback. Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, On The Road. Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and..... More
Penguin USA, May 1991. Trade Paperback. "[A] pleasant and underrated surprise . . . [Visions of Gerard] has a winning simplicity and sweetness." --The Washington Post The first book in Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer's early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of..... More
Mcgraw-Hill, August 1980. Paper Back. More
Simon & Schuster, September 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. More
Avon Books (P), March 1990. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name/date on verso of front cover. Spine creased. More
Grove Pr, December 1974. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name/date on inside of front cover. More
Southern Illinois University Press, October 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with mainstream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the '50s. Examining American society in the '50s..... More
Southern Illinois University Press, January 2004. Hardcover. Film critic David Sterritt s "Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility" showcases the social and aesthetic viewpoints of lynchpin Beat writers Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, juxtaposing their artistry with 1950s culture and achieving what Kerouac might..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Black Sparrow Press, January 1971. Paper Back. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1986. Trade Paperback. More
