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(Important Beat Association Copy) The Frisco Kid
by Kamstra, Jerry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 006012251X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060122515
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Important Beat Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page -" For Henri Lenoir - With great affection for one of the real ones, the one who started the whole thing, the original Bohemian ! Jerry Kamstra May 6, 1975 San Francisco North Beach". First Printing, with complete number row. Very Good, vertical crease to cloth at spine, boards a bit soiled, in a Near Fine dust jacket, vertical crease at spine. The artist Henri Lenoir opened his legendary Vesuvio Café in 1948, five years before City Light Bookstore moved in across the alley. The Vesuvio became THE popular hangout for members of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (who owned City Lights), and remains to this day an important San Francisco literary destination. With mailing label addressed to Lenoir rear cover, and with "Party 5/16 8 p.m." in ink and stamped "San Francisco Art Institute" verso of jacket. Map endpapers. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009652
- Title
- (Important Beat Association Copy) The Frisco Kid
- Author
- Kamstra, Jerry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 006012251X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060122515
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Beats
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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Bloomington, Indiana
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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