Visions of Cody.
by Kerouac, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0070342016
- ISBN 13
- 9780070342019
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First Printing of the First Edition. ISBN: 0070342016. A Fine tight copy in Near Fine, price-clipped, dust jacket. This edition is the first complete text of this posthumous road novel that Kerouac began writing in 1951. An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady—the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs—Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work.
Synopsis
Visions of Cody is a novel by Jack Kerouac, perhaps his most stylistically free and varied. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1973, it had by then achieved an underground reputation. Since its first printing, Visions of Cody has been published with an introduction by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg titled "The Visions of the Great Rememberer.
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- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28345
- Title
- Visions of Cody.
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0070342016
- ISBN 13
- 9780070342019
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1972.
- Keywords
- Beats
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Gregor Rare Books
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Langley, Washington
About Gregor Rare Books
Gregor Rare Books is an open shop in the beautiful waterfront village of Langley, WA on Whidbey Island. We offer a fine selection of Distinctive Literature in the First Edition. Our shop hours are Wednesday through Sunday 10 am to 5 pm pst.
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