Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
by [Kerouac, Jack]; Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0312439423
- ISBN 13
- 9780312439422
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Hardcover. SIGNED. 339pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with tan paper covered boards. Beige speckled endpapers. With numerous black and white photographs in the text. Very good. The edges of the covers are very slightly sunned. The spine ends and the top fore edge corner of the front cover are just a little bumped. In a very good dust jacket, with light soiling and rubbing, and a gently faded spine. From the dust jacket- "With the voices of the men and women who populate the Kerouac novels, including: William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Gore Vidal, & others." Also includes reminiscences from Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso. Signed by both Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee on the front free endsheet.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37372
- Title
- Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
- Author
- [Kerouac, Jack]; Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0312439423
- ISBN 13
- 9780312439422
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- lot 14; beat literature; pbhs; jack Kerouac
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...