KEROUAC, JACK | The Dharma Bums. New York: The Viking Press, 1958

KEROUAC, JACK 

The Dharma Bums. New York: The Viking Press, 1958

8vo. Publisher's gilt-stamped black cloth in dust-jacket; rubbing to dust jacket, minor chipping at spine head and tail. 

First edition, singed by beat poet Gary Snyder, Kerouac's friend and inspiration for the character Japhy Ryder. The story is centered around an expedition led by Ryder to the peak of Yosemite’s Matterhorn, a trip that Snyder and Kerouac made together in the fall of 1955. Snyder was also responsible for Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism.