The Dharma Bums
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Kerouac's fourth novel, published a year after On the Road.
Published in an edition of 13,000 copies. First edition (first printing). An attractive, square copy on the outside, but with a prior owner's name and a list of the characters and their real-life counterparts written in ink on the front free endpaper. The top edge stain is faded and the jacket has a snag along the bottom edge, with closed tears at either end. Still, a decent-looking copy. (While I'd rather the characters-real people list wasn't written in this copy, if someone had to write something, it might as well be that).
Published in an edition of 13,000 copies. First edition (first printing). An attractive, square copy on the outside, but with a prior owner's name and a list of the characters and their real-life counterparts written in ink on the front free endpaper. The top edge stain is faded and the jacket has a snag along the bottom edge, with closed tears at either end. Still, a decent-looking copy. (While I'd rather the characters-real people list wasn't written in this copy, if someone had to write something, it might as well be that).
Synopsis
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet, essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21041
- Title
- The Dharma Bums
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- mf26
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION;
Terms of Sale
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