Lonesome Traveler By Jack Kerouac First Edition
$300
“Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize ‘The stars are words’ and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too….”
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Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac . New York: McGraw Hill, 1960. First edition .
A literary giant alongside Burroughs and Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969) gave voice to a generation of seekers exploring their inner and outer worlds through experimenting with spirituality, drugs, and traveling to new places. Most famous for his books On The Road and The Dharma Bums, the short stories and essays within Lonesome Traveler provide variations on similar themes. The first edition of Jack Kerouac ‘s first truly autobiographical writing, the text is taken largely from the author’s journals, documenting his journeys across the United States, Mexico, Morocco, the UK and France, as well as his personal struggles with relationships, employment, and a sense of meaning.
First edition. 8vo, 183pp, three quarter bound tan boards with title and author over black spine. Some minor spotting to front board, wear to edges. Bookblock spotted. Toning around title page gutter, minor moisture stain to lower edges of some pages, text otherwise clean. Good condition. Dust jacket toned with losses along edges, worst to top spine. Partial horizontal split to spine face. Sticker damage to front flap interior, with back flap lower corner absent. Good condition.
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