DOCTOR SAX
First printing of this "experimental, florid, and wild" (LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL, 61) tale of dreams and childhood fantasies – in excellent condition.
Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00
First printing of this "experimental, florid, and wild" (LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL, 61) tale of dreams and childhood fantasies – in excellent condition.
Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00
Written while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City, DOCTOR SAX is a prime example of Kerouac's "spontaneous prose" – a style of writing he compared to jazz music. Its setting and theme are unique among Kerouac's works, reflecting his own childhood through a "dark funhouse" mirror rather than the wild adult "years of Beats and bodhisattvas" (Lehman) he is best known for. This copy is in notably sharp condition, exhibiting very little of the dust jacket rubbing normally seen on first printings.
Read more: Charles A. Hoyt, "The Beatnik Evolution of Jack Kerouac," Louisville Courier-Journal 31 May 1959; Erik D. Lehman, "Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac," Empty Mirror Books.
First edition. New York: Grove Press, Inc, (1959). 8'' x 5.25''. Original grey cloth boards. Original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket. 246 pages. Small bookseller label to rear pastedown. Jacket with light wear to spine ends, one tiny closed tear; a touch of sunning to spine. Tight and clean.
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