Excerpts from Visions of Cody.
by KEROUAC, Jack
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About This Item
New York: New Directions,, 1959. The spiritual sequel to On the Road, signed First edition, sole printing, number 613 of 750 copies signed by the author, here retaining the original acetate jacket. This 128-page excerpt of Visions of Cody spawned from Kerouac's revisions to On the Road (1957) and presents a character study of that novel's hero, Dean Moriarty, renamed here Cody Pomeray due to copyright restrictions, though still based on Neal Cassady. A further 55 copies were produced out of series. No further editions or printings were issued separately until the complete edition of 1973, although sections were printed in various magazines, such as Playboy, The Beats, Transatlantic Review, and a few others. Reviewing the final version of the text, one New York Times critic observed, "you will find some of Kerouac's very best writing in this book. It is funny, it is serious. It is eloquent. To read 'On the Road' but not 'Visions of Cody' is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac's wildest writing" (Latham). Octavo. Original purple cloth-backed white boards designed by Kerouac, spine lettered and decorated in silver, front cover lettered in red and purple, orange endpapers. With publisher's clear acetate dust jacket. Line drawings by the author. Faint and topical lingering scent of cigarette smoke, toning to binding's upper edges, otherwise a clean, sharp copy in fine acetate jacket. Charters A9. Aaron Latham, "Visions of Cody", New York Times, 28 Jan. 1973.
Synopsis
Excerpts from Visions of Cody was published in 1959 with only 750 copies. This book has only 120 pages, as the complete text of Visions of Cody was considered "unpublishable."
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 159282
- Title
- Excerpts from Visions of Cody.
- Author
- KEROUAC, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: New Directions,
- Date Published
- 1959
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