On the Road
Jack Kerouac, 1957
KEROUAC, Jack (1922-1969). On the Road. New York: Viking Press, 1957.

First edition of Kerouac's landmark Beat novel. Written in a legendary 20-day stint at his typewriter that has become part of Beat lore, Kerouac created a work so unique in its form and radical in its narrative that it was summarily rejected by a string of generally innovative editors and publishers. But Kerouac continued to write–in the six years between the creation of On the Road and the book's publication, he completed at least eleven books and a large quantity of poetry and prose. A lovely copy.

Octavo. Original cloth; dust jacket (minor rubbing and edge-wear including a short closed tear at rear fold, faint scratches to front panel); custom box.