Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Kerouac, Jack. The Subterraneans. Andre Deutsch, London, 1960.
Price: US$18.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Impression, August 2020. Dustjacket shows some lightwear to edges and the spine is sun-bleached, but otherwise clean and bright, not price clipped. The book is solid and neat with no markings or inscriptions, appearing unused.
Seller: David's Bookshop, Letchworth BA, Letchworth Garden City, HERTS, United Kingdom
Kerouac, Jack. THE SUBTERRANEANS. Andre Deutsch, London, 1960.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover lacking dust jacket, 7 1/4 by 5 inches, 158 pages. 1/2 inch missing from head of spine, outer edges a bit worn. Inner hinges tight, pages clean. Stamp of Berkelouw Bookdealers Sydney on front endpaper, Bookplate, in German, on initial page. second printing, same year as first.
Seller: Collectors Cabinet, Teaneck, NJ, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. The Subterraneans. Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1960.
Price: US$38.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1960. Andre Deutsch Ltd. Hardback. GOOD First edition. Red cloth. Pages are clean, clear and firmly bound. Page edges are lightly foxed and tanned. Spine slightly faded and covers worn. No DJ 8' x 5'
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$39.79 + shipping
Description: 12mo (19x12.5cm), hardback, 158pp. Good+ condition in good dustwrapper (lower corners of front and rear flaps clipped, bumped, creased, rubbed at right rear edge, lightly chipped edges, several small tears to upper edges, white background of rear cover a bit grubby, scuff marks, spine a little faded, film tie-in with Leslie Caron pictured on the front cover). Lightly bumped, spine canted. Pictures available on request.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Kerouac, Jack. The Subterraneans. Andre Deutsch, London, 1960.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd impression of the First British Edition. Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox, part of the 1950s San Francisco underground. A tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America's field of vision. CONDITION Green bds with bright gilt title (unworn) 158 pages are bright and crisp with name inside front and light dust spotting to edge, DJ has loss top front, faded spine with small tear mid spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
Jack Kerouac:. The Subterraneans (2nd impression). Andre Deutsch Ltd (1960), 1960.
Price: US$65.42 + shipping
Description: VG/VG. hardcovers. pictorial dj. of Leslie Carron playing Mardou in the film of the book. Dj is sunned to spine, with some minimal loss at bottom end, and slight rubbing at top end. . rear cream panel has some isolated tarnish points - but falls short of looking grubby or stained. just some isolated light signs. dj to front cover is creased to top edge with some rubbing, and same to the 2 corners. in good clean condition for its age. no inscriptions. not price-clipped. internally a delightful clean copy. some isolated tarnish points to textblock edge. rare title with DJ in this condition. first edition, 2nd impression. From the personal collection of a dealer/collector. Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox, part of the 1950s San Francisco underground. A tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America's field of vision.
Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdom
KEROUAC, JACK.. The Subterraneans.. London; Andre Deutsch Limited; 1960., 1960.
Price: US$66.32 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 158; bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, price clipped dustjacket, dustjacket worn and chipped on edges with small piece missing at top edge of spine, good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Kerouac, Jack.. The Subterraneans [Hardcover] Kerouac, Jack.. Andre Deutsch, 1960.
Price: US$84.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Not a 1st edition - Second impression published in August 1960 - No dust jacket - Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The spine is faded. There is creasing/wear to the cover.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Kerouac, Jack. The Subterraneans.. Andre Deutsch, London, 1960.
Price: US$92.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 198pp. Or red cloth in jacket. Jacket faded on spine with chips at top and bottom, very short tears at top and bottom of flap fold, corner torn from bottom of rear flap fold. Bookseller label on front pastedown, minor toning to endapers, minor foxng to page edges. Front panel of jacket shows Leslie Caron as Mardou in the MGM film. Size: 8vo
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second impression of the first UK edition, published in August1960. The first UK impression was published just the month before in July 1960, and the book was first published in the USA by Grove Press, New York, in 1958. The author's third novel, a semi-autobiographical love story. ***Very good in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. The gilt is still nice and bright. The tail of the spine is slightly creased. Corners sharp. Top edge of page block lightly foxed. No reading lean to the binding. Binding straight. Internally also very good, with no inscriptions. Pages clean, with no creases or tears. ***In a very good colour-illustrated first impression dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 10s 6s net (with the "s" printing error instead of the "d") to the bottom of the front inner flap, and correctly printed 10s 6d to the bottom of the rear inner flap - the error was obviously not corrected from the first impression dustwrapper. The dustwrapper shows the correct 'second impression' on the front flap, and iis largely complete, with just some loss to the head and tail of the spine and corners, with some associated small tears and creasing. Unusually for this title, the red colouring to the spine of the dustwrapper is only slightly faded. The back panel of the dustwrapper is really clean, which is also unusual as it is a plain white background. Dustwrapper bright. ***192mm x 126mm. 158 pages. ***'The author of "On the Road" and "The Dharma Bums" usually chooses to cover a large canvas, to give a great panorama of the Subterranean (or Beatnik) way of life. In this novel he does something different. He focuses sharply on one incident: the love of Leo and Mardou. It is a fierce, sweet, sad love, lived outside the boundaries of square morality, and Jack Kerouac evokes it with a vibrating intensity. Some people feel that it is the best of his novels; certainly it is the most moving.' ***'Kerouac is the chronicler - if not indeed the prophet - of the beat generation. And his picaresque, biting and sometimes mystical book (On the Road) is a required text.' (Sunday Times) ***'This man Kerouac is good --- Open him on any page and you can go, go, go.' - Lilliput (Quote and general review quotes taken from the front and back flaps of the dustwrapper) ***The book was made into the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, co-starring Leslie Caron and George Peppard. Leslie Caron played Mardou in MGM's film of the book and is shown on the front panel of the dustwrapper. ***A second impression of the first UK edition - early printings of the work are very hard to find now. The second impression differs slightly from the first, in that the book is bound in green cloth rather than red, and the dustwrapper is printed on extremely thin paper, making surviving copies even less likely now. The interior of this copy feels unread which is also very uncommon. Of interest to collectors of Jack Kerouac, The Beats,1960s counter-culture, and iconic American twentieth century literary first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Kerouac, Jack. The Subterraneans. Andre Deutsch, London, 1960.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British Edition. Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox, part of the 1950s San Francisco underground. A tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and adventurers existing outside mainstream America's field of vision. CONDITION Red bds faintly rubbed bottom front cnr o/w unworn, copy is bright with name inside front. DJ has loss to spine ends and some wear at extremities, not price clipped. In protective cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
Jack Kerouac. The Subterraneans. Andre Deutsch, 1960.
Price: US$109.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black boards and spine, the latter lettered in gilt; the front board slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket soiled, particularly on rear white panel; the four front corners rubbed, two of them with 5 mm splits; faded spine rubbed down edges, a 1 cm x 1 cm stain near top and 5 mm splits on either side. Dust spots on top edge and significant foxing to fore edge. Internally diminishing foxing through endpapers, first blank, half title and title page; occasional thereafter. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
KEROUAC, Jack.. The Subterraneans.. , 1960.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Description: Andre Deutsch, London. 1960. First Edition. First Issue, UK. Hardback DW. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Small number in pen to top margin of front free endpaper with booksellers' stamp to bottom margin. Edges, endpapers and inside flaps of wrapper are slightly browned and foxed. The wrapper is price clipped, sunned to spine and a little worn and rubbed at extremities with slight loss to head and tail of spine, not affecting text.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the first UK edition, published in 1960. The book was first published in the USA by Grove Press, New York, in 1958. The author's third novel, a semi-autobiographical love story. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Bottom corner-tip of the front board slightly creased. Top edge of page block foxed. Binding straight. No reading lean to the binding. Internally also very good, with a contemporaneous owner's name and date - 'Brian Cannon 1960' - in black fountain pen ink to the top of the front free endpaper. Pages clean, with no creases or tears. ***In a very good colour-illustrated first impression dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 10s 6s (with the "s" printing error instead of the "d") net to the bottom of the front inner flap, and correctly printed 10s 6d to the bottom of the rear inner flap, as called for with the first impression dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is largely complete, with some loss to the head of the spine with some associated small tears. Small loss, rubbing and creasing and associated small tears to the tail of the spine of the dustwrapper. Small closed tear and associated creasing to the bottom edge of the front panel of the dustwrapper. Other small nicks to the edges of the dustwrapper and shallow horizontal loss to the bottom edge of the back panel of the dustwrapper. Extremities of dustwrapper creased and rubbed. Back panel of the dustwrapper discoloured and surface-marked (being a plain white background). Light brown mark to the top of the front foldover flap. Unusually for this title, the red colouring to the spine of the dustwrapper is only slightly faded. Dustwrapper bright. ***192mm x 126mm. 158 pages. ***'The author of "On the Road" and "The Dharma Bums" usually chooses to cover a large canvas, to give a great panorama of the Subterranean (or Beatnik) way of life. In this novel he does something different. He focuses sharply on one incident: the love of Leo and Mardou. It is a fierce, sweet, sad love, lived outside the boundaries of square morality, and Jack Kerouac evokes it with a vibrating intensity. Some people feel that it is the best of his novels; certainly it is the most moving.' ***'Kerouac is the chronicler - if not indeed the prophet - of the beat generation. And his picaresque, biting and sometimes mystical book (On the Road) is a required text.' (Sunday Times) ***'This man Kerouac is good --- Open him on any page and you can go, go, go.' - Lilliput (Quote and general review quotes taken from the front and back flaps of the dustwrapper) ***The book was made into the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, co-starring Leslie Caron and George Peppard. Leslie Caron played Mardou in MGM's film of the book and is shown on the front panel of the dustwrapper. ***First impression of the first UK edition - early printings of the work are very hard to find now, especially in the original dustwrapper, and most especially in first impression. Of interest to collectors of Jack Kerouac, The Beats,1960s counter-culture, and iconic American twentieth century literary first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Kerouac, Jack.. THE SUBTERRANEANS.. Andre Deutsch., 1960.
Price: US$224.25 + shipping
Description: 7.5 x 5, boards, 158 pp, minor removal marks at back inner hinge, light damping else an ok copy in used dw (but complete!) FIRST BRITISH ED.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. The Subterraneans. Andre Deutsch, 1960.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Andre Deutsch: London, 1960. 12 mo. (5" by 7 1/2") 158 pp. [1-8] 9-158 p. First leaf blank. First UK edition. Red cloth with gold lettering to the spine. Jacket has the the price of "10s6d" on the front and rear flaps. Faint foxing to the top edge, internally clean. Red jacket with white lettering has a black and white photo of Leslie Caron who played "Mardou" in MGM's film of this book. Very good with moderate fading to the spine, and light edgewear to the corners and spine ends with minor loss of material. Ref: Charters.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. THE SUBTERRANEANS. Andre Deutsch, 1960.
Price: US$243.60 + shipping
Description: THE SUBTERRANEANS, Andre Deutsch, 1960, first English edition, some scattered foxing to the page edges never entering the text block, else vg+ or better in just about vg photographic dust-wrapper with some wear and tear. The source book for the film of the same name.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. The Subterraneans. Andre Deutsch, 1960.
Price: US$288.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition published by Andre Deutsch in 1960. Originally published two years earlier in the USA by the Grove Press. Unclipped dustjacket with small tears to the spine ends, with some general light wear, spine a little faded, now in an acid free clear removable protective wrapper. Red covers, spotting to the page edges and lightly to pages, bookplate to the free endpaper reads "The Cloisters Chichester". Good condition.
Seller: Bushido Books, Guildford, United Kingdom