Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac [Inscribed]
by Nicosia, Gerald
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- About near fine to near fine(-) with slight shelfwear & soiling to edges.
- ISBN 10
- 0520085698
- ISBN 13
- 9780520085695
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 1st Calif. pbk. ed. Paperback. About near fine to near fine(-) with slight shelfwear & soiling to edges.. Small quarto illus. white spine; viii, 767 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Inscribed by author. Contents: Prologue: Americans Twice Over -- The Trademark of Breton -- The Ruins of Pearl Harbor -- The Sound of New York -- Wolfeans and Black Priests -- Metamorphosis -- Slow Boat to China -- The Sponsors of Waste -- More Day to Dawn -- The Footsteps of the Bard -- Double Vision -- Clowns in a Circus of Power -- "The Obsessive Violence of Rimbaud" and "The Ravbeled Nerve-Ends of Huysmans" -- The Ghosts of Northport -- Jack's Last Tape -- Epilogue -- Books by Jack Kerouac. Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1983.
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- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87742
- Title
- Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac [Inscribed]
- Author
- Nicosia, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - About near fine to near fine(-) with slight shelfwear & soiling to edges.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Calif. pbk. ed
- ISBN 10
- 0520085698
- ISBN 13
- 9780520085695
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1994
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