New York: Grove Press, 1958.
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Hardcover. Second printing. Professionally recased. Good with the pages somewhat toned and the first few dampstained but fresh lettering on the front board and spine fresh in good dustwrapper a bit rubbed, a few tiny tears and partially split at the spine. Inscribed by Kerouac to Terry Southern: "To Beautiful Terry from Ugly Uncle Jack, Jack." Kerouac and Southern met through Mason Hoffenberg, Southern's *Candy* co-author, when Southern returned from Paris to New York and settled in Greenwich Village. Southern was notorious for abusing his books and this copy is no exception, hence the re-casing. Still a spectacular association copy linking two iconic counterculture figures in what is often considered one of the scarcest of Kerouac's books to find signed.
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