Doctor Sax; Faust Part Three
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345271319
- ISBN 13
- 9780345271310
- Seller
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Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Ballantine, 1977. Mass market paperback. Good. 12mo, 217 pages. Firm binding; no loose pages. Second Ballantine printing. Sunned spine. Tanned pages; some underlining and marks. A good reading copy in this uncommon edition. This was Kerouac's fifth published novel. He wrote 'Doctor Sax' in 1952, but it was not published until 1959, a year after 'The Dharma Bums' was published. 'Doctor Sax' is written in an improvisatory style that Kerouac called 'spontaneous prose.'"
Synopsis
Doctor Sax is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wayside Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3750
- Title
- Doctor Sax; Faust Part Three
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Mass market paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0345271319
- ISBN 13
- 9780345271310
- Publisher
- Ballantine
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
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About the Seller
Wayside Books
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Pittsburg, Kansas
About Wayside Books
Wayside Books LLC is owned by Dianne and Steven Cox, currently operating their online store in Southeast Kansas. We have honed our rare book skills at the Rare Books School at the University of Virginia and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. We sell modern first editions and collectible fiction, as well as children's books and non-fiction books, with an emphasis on history, politics, social sciences, and the arts.
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Reading Copy
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....