The Town and The City
by Kerouac, Jack
In his first novel, The Town and the City, Kerouac draws on his experience in a New England quiet mill-working town to create the very standard American world of George and Marguerite Martin and their children.
More accessible than Kerouac's later, more free-form verse, this novel follows in detail the life and growth of three of the Martin brothers as they move up and out of their home and into broader America.
"When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along."
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition of Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in an excellent price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and a chip to the extremities. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Jack Kerouac began writing The Town and the City in late 1945, according to Ellis Amburn, who edited Kerouac's last two… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition of Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Jack Kerouac began writing The Town and the City in late 1945, according to Ellis Amburn, who edited Kerouac's last two novels and wrote the biography Subterranean Kerouac. Heavily… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First Edition. The author's first novel, written between 1947-48 in Queens where he lived with his mother and father. The present copies belonged to poet Jackson Mac Low. Laid into the advance copy is a TLS from the publishers addressed to "Miss Maclow" (the painter Iris Lezak, who Mac Low would later… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition of the Jack Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dave Creviston To Scribner's With Luck To Dave With Luck (f.s) Jack Kerouac." An interesting inscription as Kerouac submitted this work to Charles Scribner's Sons twice, and was… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 499 pages. In Very Good condition, with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine illustrated with white titling. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Price unclipped: "$3.50". Dust jacket shows mild chipping and wear to all extremities, some tape reinforcement along interior of jacket on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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NEITHER BLACK NOR WHITE YET BOTH Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
by SOLLORS, WERNER
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition of Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by Kerouac on the front free endpaper and with the ownership name of his close childhood friend and neighbor in Lowell, Massachusetts, Charles Dudevoir. With a note of provenance signed by Charles Dudevoir's granddaughter which reads in part, "Phil - my… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition of the Jack Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Jack Kerouac To Judge Eno- belated Thanks for driving me home in your Buick in '32, and for your friendship to my father-." The recipient, Judge Eno was the… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Advance review copy. 499pp. Publisher's salmon wraps. Very Good+ with slight finger-soiling, rubbing to spine, slight wear at head, corners slightly bumped. An uncommon prepublication copy of Kerouac's first published novel. Item Price
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THE TOWN AND THE CITY
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Jack Kerouac began writing The Town and the City in late 1945, according to Ellis Amburn, who edited Kerouac's last two novels and wrote the biography Subterranean Kerouac. Heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe, he sent the completed manuscript to Wolfe's publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, in 1948. Allen Ginsberg lobbied his former teacher… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Town and the City
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The Town and the City
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The Town and the City
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The Town and the City
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New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, [no date] Circa 1956. [Modern Literature] GROSSET'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY EDITION, early paperback edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 499; [1]; [6], publisher's advertisements. Illustrated softcovers with printed price of $1.45 to front cover. Toning to edges of textblock, light creasing to spine and back cover, minor edgewear. Very good. 'The Town and the… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Jack Kerouac began writing The Town and the City in late 1945, according to Ellis Amburn, who edited Kerouac's last two novels and wrote the biography Subterranean Kerouac. Heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe, he sent the completed manuscript to Wolfe's publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, in 1948. Allen Ginsberg lobbied his former teacher… Read more about this item Item Price
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