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Lot 230
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Kerouac, Jack

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • Excerpts from Visions of Cody. [New York: New Directions, 1960]
  • paper, ink
8vo. With publisher's prospectus laid in, decorations for the cover, title-page, and in-text illustrations by Kerouac. Publisher's purple cloth-backed cream boards, decoratively lettered in purple and red, spine stamped in silver, original acetate dust jacket. Spine and top of back board very lightly sunned.

Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 321 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE COLOPHON. Visions of Cody was not published in its entirety until 1972, following Kerouac's death.