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The Dharma Bums.
by KEROUAC, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press,, 1958. First edition, first printing, this copy in a variant binding not noted by Charters, with "Dharma Bums" lettered in silver on the spine rather than metallic blue, and without the green top edge. This title outlines "the equipment and attitudes it took to live Kerouac's way, including both the spiritual equipment [Zen Buddhism] as well as ordinary equipment like prosaic tents and Oakland store sleeping bags" (Charters, p. 270). This copy has two postcards and a bookmark from Gotham Book Mart, the Manhattan cultural landmark and literary salon. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver and green, titles in green on front cover. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom flat-backed folding box. With three newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Edges a little rubbed, upper outer corners bumped, slight wear to lower edges; jacket rubbed with two short closed tears, edges nicked with a few chips to foot of spine and lower corners, unclipped; a very good copy in like jacket. Charters A4a. Ann Charters, Kerouac: A Biography, 1994.
Synopsis
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet, essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165842
- Title
- The Dharma Bums.
- Author
- KEROUAC, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: The Viking Press,
- Date Published
- 1958
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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