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Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Beige coloured cloth covered boards with red coloured titles to the backstrip. The first novel of Jack Kerouac, using his more unfamiliar original name. A coming of age story, where the protagonist is grieving over the death of his father and gripped with the determination to write the great American novel. Softening and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners will. the underlying board is visible to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel. Uneven fading to the front panel and sunning to the backstrip. Foxing to the backstrip and to the textblock edges and to the internal pages, most particularly noticeable to the endpapers. White patch to the rear book panel. Offset tanning to the endpapers and some stains to the top textblock edge. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 3-499, [5]…
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