Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three
New York: Grove Press, (1959).
Price: $750.00
Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. Evergreen Original E-160. Modest rubbing, but a fresh, near fine copy. With the neat ownership Signature of author Larry McMurtry dated by him in 1959, when McMurtry would have been a graduate student in the writing program at Stanford. An interesting association, McMurtry also wrote a memoir called *Roads*, an arresting travelogue recounting his driving across the country possible influenced by Kerouac.
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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