The Dharma Bums
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Newcastle, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums. A very nice copy of this classic from the Beat Generation.
Viking, New York 1958, pp. 244. First Edition with unclipped dust jacket. Text is clean, unmarked and tight. The original black cloth covers lettered in silver and green are unmarked, and the book is in FINE CONDITION. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with only slight scuffing and the inside of the front flap has a faint pink mark over the price, See photo.
Synopsis
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet, essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rachel Smith Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Mar002
- Title
- The Dharma Bums
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher’s black cloth binding with dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1858
- Pages
- 244
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Beat Generation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Beat Literature;
Terms of Sale
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