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Jack Kerouac. Rimbaud. City Lights, 1960.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd printing from 1960 of this scarce accordion fold broadside by Jack Kerouac, printed by City Lights. Printed on both sides. Excellent overall condition - a couple of light finger imprints else excellent, looks like it could have been printed yesterday.
Seller: Aeon Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Rimbaud. City Lights, 1960.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Single sheet, 5 x 20" folded 4 times. Printed both sides, red on yellow paper. Second edition. Lightly handled, very good. (Charters A-14.)
Seller: Granary Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Author: Jack Kerouac. Title: RIMBAUD. Publisher: San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1960. First edition, First printing with 35c price. (Charters A14). One of the 2,000 scarce printed copies. Language: Text in English. Size: 5 " X 5 ". Pages: 1 fold page. Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine folded broadside (25 x 5 inches) printed in black on yellow paper, recto and verso (edges and corners fine - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover. Content: Very good, near fine content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown). **** The book: Scarce remaining copy in a beautiful condition of this wonderful 202 line poem by Jack Kerouac about the symbolist French poet Arthur Rimbaud printed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights in a fold-out format. It first appeared in Yugen no. 6 earlier in the same year.
Seller: MFLIBRA Antique Books, MONTREAL, QC, Canada
KEROUAC, Jack.. Rimbaud.. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960, 1960.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing (priced 35c), one of 2,000 copies printed and now quite scarce. This 202-line poem by Kerouac about the proto-beat French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was printed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights in their fold-out format. "Rimbaud" first appeared in Yugen no. 6 earlier the same year. Rimbaud was the gold standard for the kind of poets the Beats wanted to be. Sal Paradise in On the Road tries to encourage Dean "that he can do anything. become the greatest poet since Rimbaud". Charters A14. Broadside folded in fifths (128 x 130 mm). Yellow paper printed in black. Folds lightly toned, a near-fine copy of an ephemeral work.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom