Edited by Howard Cunnell. First edition, fifth printing. Dust Jacket: Fine. An unclipped jacket designed by Gregory Mollica. Hardcover: Fine. NY: Viking, 2007. Ivory cloth with black and gold lettering on the spine. No writing or markings in this wonderful edition, like new, 408 pp.
In three weeks in April 1951, Kerouac composed and typed out one long single-spaces paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll.
Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. "Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens. During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes."
A must book for any Kerouac fan or collector. Howard Cunnell, along with three other Kerouac scholars, wrote the critical introduction for the book.
