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THE DHARMA BUMS
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
(London): Andre Deutsch, 1959. Fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Kerouac's classic Beat novel, published the year after the U.S. edition, in the striking Bernard Blatch dust jacket. Written over ten marathon sessions in 1957 (also in scroll format, like ON THE ROAD), DHARMA BUMS follows Kerouac's and Gary Snyder's literary stand-ins as they sample the Beat scene and ponder Buddhism. "I'd sit at the typewriter and do 20,000 or 15,000 words," Kerouac remembered in 1966. "I can't do that anymore. Got to be an athlete." It remains a much-loved work. 7.5'' x 5''. Original red cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original price-clipped (front panel; 15s intact on rear panel) pictorial dust jacket by Bernard Blatch. Publisher's label with correct 1959 publication date to title page verso, covering "1950" misprinting. Minor foxing to endpapers and top edge. Shallow chipping and edgewear to jacket extremities; rubbing, wear and some soil to rear panel.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50192
- Title
- THE DHARMA BUMS
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- (London)
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,US American,Gift Idea
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About the Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2004
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Brian Cassidy Bookseller is the counterculture department of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book firm founded in 2019 by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. BCB @ TPM specializes in the avant garde in all its various guises, including: The Beats; artists' books; poetry; small journals and magazines (especially those associated with the Mimeo Revolution); modern and contemprary art; photography; music; archives and appraisals; as well as vernacular, folk, and outsider books of all kinds. We are always looking to purchase books within my areas of interest, from single titles to collections. Please inquire. We are open by appointment and are easily accessible by public transit.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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