First printing of Kerouac's collected writings on travel: on foot, by railway, aboard ship, and on the road.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $600.00
"Railroad work, sea work, mysticism, mountain work, lasciviousness..."
Collected journal entries, both previously published and unpublished, by a Kerouac who had "nothing else to do but roam, long-faced, the real America, with my unreal heart." Connected by the common theme of traveling, LONESOME TRAVELER ranges over not only the length and breadth of the United States but "Mexico, Morocco, Paris, London, both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans at sea in ships, and various and interesting people and cities therein included."
First Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black and brown boards. Brown endpapers. In original unclipped ($4.50) dust jacket, designed by Larry Rivers. Illustrated with charcoal drawings by Rivers throughout. 183, [1] pages. Minor scuffing and light toning to dust jacket; pencil notation to front flap under original price. Interior clean and unmarked.
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