Excerpts from Visions of Cody
New York: (New Directions), (1960).
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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine example of the original acetate dustwrapper (not shown in illustration). One of 750 numbered copies Signed by Kerouac, this copy out of series. Laid in is the publisher's prospectus as issued, fine with a small and very faint dampstain. The only lifetime edition of this title; it was expanded and republished in a trade edition after Kerouac's death. Scarce.
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Jack Kerouac
birth name: Jean-Louis Kerouac
born: 3/12/1922
died: 10/21/1969
Biography
American poet and novelist, leader and spokesman of the Beat movement. Kerouac gave the Beat movement its name and celebrated its code of poverty and freedom in a series of novels, of which the first and best known is On the Road 1957. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore