The Dharma Bums
New York: Viking Press, 1958.
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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in about near fine dustwrapper with modest rubbing and old tape residue at the crown on the inside of the jacket, but with none of the usual fading to the colored portions of the spine illustration. A Viking Press editor's card laid in, presumably this was some sort of complimentary copy. Kerouac's follow-up to *On the Road*, a thinly-veiled account of his spiritual growth and friendship with poet Gary Snyder. A very nice copy.
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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