Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus, NY, 1962.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "First printing, 1962" stated. Light foxing to first and last extra pages. Fading to blue dyed top stain. Mild wear to corners. White jacket panels have mild soiling and rubbing. Some creasing/wrinkling to top and bottom 1/2" on jacket panels. Inside has five white tape repairs. Jacket is not price-clipped ($4.50 present).
Seller: Eliot Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, NY, 1962.
Price: US$149.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing (stated), 1962. Clean and tightly bound with fine contents. Heavy fading to the spine cloth and titles and a single faint mark on the fore edge, otherwise a Very Good plus copy. No dust jacket.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing (stated). Blue patterned paper-covered boards, paper lightly worn and scuffed, edge worn, down to boards at corners, black cloth over spine faded and frayed at ends. Owner bookplate, number stamps and writing on front end papers, peeled areas on front and back end papers, library stamp on bottom page edges, pages lightly worn and tanned along edges, highlighting on one page. Between fair and good.
Seller: Vintage Quaker Books, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. BIG SUR. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 241 pages. In Good condition with Good dust jacket. White spine with blue and black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has tearing to spine edges, chipping to corners and edges of both covers, damp staining to inside and outside of both covers, and wrinkling to rear cover from water damage. Bowing to rear board from water damage. Textblock has damp staining to pastedowns, damp staining to rear endpaper, foxing to some pages, and damp staining to head edge. First Printing stated on copyright page. Shelved Case 6. 1373166. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. Stated first printing. 8 vo. 241 pp. Blue paper-covered boards; black cloth backstrip with gold lettering. Unclipped ($4.50) white jacket with black lettering and blue and green circles. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown; there are also 3 small words and numbers in ink on the rear pastedown. The jacket has a few, small closed tears and light toning to the spine and edges. Very good.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. BIG SUR. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 241 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has foxing to inside and outside of dust jacket, chipping to spine edges, and minor edge and shelf wear. Textblock has light foxing to endpapers and pastedowns and small black marks on endpapers. Shelved Case 6. 1373161. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Interior clean. Dust jacket shows some wear. First printing. Pictures on request
Seller: Old Village Books, Mt. Pleasant, SC, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, NY, 1962.
Price: US$549.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publisher's gilt-titled cloth-backed marbled boards, faded blue topstain. First printing stated. Trace shelfwear to board edges, slight sunning to spine ends, slight soil to edge. PO name stamped. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is mildly rubbed/soiled; interior clear tape to one tiny tear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus & Cahudy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 241pp.Stated first printing. Shimmering blue marbled boards, gilt lettering on the black spine. Light toning to the spine edges, a light streak across the foreedge, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped white jacket with black lettering and blue and green lettered circles(design by Janet Halver has light, even soiling to the front panel. There is a barely visible closed tear on the rear panel. in fresh mylar sleeve. "In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol." Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack.. Big Sur.. Farrar Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing [stated]. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good or better dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Black cloth and dark blue marbled paper covered boards in excellent condition. Slight spotting to edges of textblock and endpapers, otherwise text clean and unmarked. Dustwrapper with slight wear to points, scant soil, but no fading. Tiny loss to upper flap tips, one short closed tear lower front spinefold. 241pp. Overall a very nice copy. Q10893
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. Book is bound in blue cloth. Dust jacket is not clipped, has 2 small tears.
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. BIG SUR. FARRAR STRAUS, 1962.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A FINE FIRST EDITION IN NEAR FINE DJ. owner's stamp on the fep.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue marble-affect boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint tape stains to endsheets and top and bottom edges of boards, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, light toning and light tape stains to flaps. A lovely copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A lovely copy of the book. Just about Fine, with a few spots to the lower edge of the closed text block and a touch of sunning to the top-stain. In a Near Fine jacket with only trivial wear and discoloration to the jacket. "In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore in him a sense of balance" (Saroyan). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur (first printing). Farrar Straus & Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Farrar Straus & Cudahy. New York. 1962. 241 pages. First edition, first printing stated. Original DJ with $4.50 price intact on flap. Book is near fine. No flaws of note; a touch of sunning at crown, and faint fingernail impression on blue topstain. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages and endpapers are clean. Blue marbled paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth. Original DJ is bright and attractive. DJ shows minor light rubbing, and a small closed edge-tear. Tiny remnant of an old price sticker on rear. Kerouac's classic novel written over a ten day period in the fall of 1961, on a typewriter scroll. A beauty of a copy; first edition, first printing. Near Fine/VG++
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
KEROUAC, Jack.. Big Sur.. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1962, 1962.
Price: US$1090.35 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's "comeback" novel, a stark depiction of the self-destructive trajectory of his life after the success of On the Road. "Craving both solitude and genuine companionship, his fictional counterpart Jack Duluoz careens from the retreat of a cabin at Big Sur to San Francisco's North Beach and back. The novel offers one of the most arresting treatments of alcoholism in modern literature, and although it ends with the narrator experiencing the vision of the Cross of Christian redemption, Kerouac himself was unable to recover from the depths he plumbed in his writing" (ANB). Charters A17. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed marbled blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Spine and top edge sunned, light bumps at spine ends, upper corners, and lower edge of front cover, covers slightly bowed; jacket faintly soiled, edges nicked with one short closed tear to foot of rear panel, unclipped: a very good copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1962.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Printing" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy. The ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color and has the publisher's $4.50 printed price present on the front flap. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
KEROUAC, Jack.. Big Sur.. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1962, 1962.
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of Kerouac's "comeback" novel, a stark depiction of the self-destructive trajectory of his life after the success of On the Road. "Craving both solitude and genuine companionship, his fictional counterpart Jack Duluoz careens from the retreat of a cabin at Big Sur to San Francisco's North Beach and back. The novel offers one of the most arresting treatments of alcoholism in modern literature, and although it ends with the narrator experiencing the vision of the Cross of Christian redemption, Kerouac himself was unable to recover from the depths he plumbed in his writing" (ANB). Charters A17. Octavo. Original black cloth backing blue marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Ink stamp of the Bookstall, Vancouver, on rear free endpaper; neat ink annotation on verso of jacket. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, spine ends just sunned, spot of wear to lower corner of front cover; jacket price-clipped with neat tape repair on verso, a few faint marks, edges a little nicked: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Kerouac, Jack.. Big Sur.. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1962.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Printing. Very Fine in quarter black cloth, dark blue marbled paper covered boards, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 241pp. Q19877
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.