On The Road ~Signed~ (First Printing) with Original Dust Jacket by Kerouac - 1957

The Viking Press, New York, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Good binding, some damage to boards, see pictures. Dust Jacket Original in Good+ condition. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the words "Published in 1957 by the Viking Press, Inc."
Comes with laid in check signed 3 times by Kerouac, $80 check made out to himself in 1958.

Book is signed and inscribed by Sterling Lord his agent with the inscription "Sterling Lord May 22, 2001 Audition Day" possibly from his role in the 2002 movie "The Last Editor" where he played himself.
Co-Chairman of the agency, Sterling has been representing authors for more than sixty years and continues to accept new clients. His authors over the years have included Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dick Francis, David Wise, Frank Deford, Tony Summers, Jimmy Breslin, Gloria Naylor, Bill Nack, and Howard Fast. He has represented four United States Cabinet members and Judge John Sirica, as well as one of the largest selling college textbooks on American government, Democracy Under Pressure by Milton C. Cummings and David Wise. In the area of children's books, Sterling brought the Berenstain family into the agency, and has represented them for 55 years. The Berenstain Bears books have sold over 300 million copies in the United States and Canada alone. According to Publishers Weekly, Sterling's own memoir, Lord of Publishing, is "one of the great publishing memoirs of the modern era."