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KEROUAC, Jack. THE TOWN AND THE CITY. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951.
Price: US$56.88 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book has slight lean. Boards and spine are stained and worn. Spine in particular has such a large amount of wear that the title and author's name are obscured. Corners are slightly bumped. Endpapers and top edge are heavily foxed and stained. Other edges, and occasional pages, also have some foxing and staining. Binding very slightly unhinged. Previous owner's signature and date written on front free endpaper. Else book is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.
Seller: Uncle Peter's Books, Clunes, NSW, Australia
John Kerouac (Jack Kerouac). The Town and the City. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No dust jacket. Spine shows some moderate bleaching. Covers show some rubbing, scuffing, fading and some light scratching. Pages are browned from age.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Kerouac, John (Jack). The Town and the City. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951.
Price: US$167.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beige coloured cloth covered boards with red coloured titles to the backstrip. The first novel of Jack Kerouac, using his more unfamiliar original name. A coming of age story, where the protagonist is grieving over the death of his father and gripped with the determination to write the great American novel. Softening and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners will. the underlying board is visible to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel. Uneven fading to the front panel and sunning to the backstrip. Foxing to the backstrip and to the textblock edges and to the internal pages, most particularly noticeable to the endpapers. White patch to the rear book panel. Offset tanning to the endpapers and some stains to the top textblock edge. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 3-499, [5] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Beat Writer; Inventory No: 0114990.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Kerouac, John (Jack). The Town and the City. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951.
Price: US$167.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Beige coloured cloth covered boards with red coloured titles to the backstrip. The first novel of Jack Kerouac, using his more unfamiliar original name. A coming of age story, where the protagonist is grieving over the death of his father and gripped with the determination to write the great American novel. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges and there is fading to the top half of the back strip. Bumping, rubbing and some fraying of the book corners with the rest of the edges rubbed. The spine is somewhat cocked and the panel show patchy fading, stains and marks. Light tannig of the text block edges which also states shows staining. Offset tanning and foxing to the end pages with the pages themselves only slightly tanned. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front end page. Sunning to the back strip. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 3-499, [5] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Beat Writer; Inventory No: 0287740.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Kerouac, Jack. The Town and the City. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951.
Price: US$234.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor foxing on spine & first couple pages & rear EP. Small name stamp on first 2 pages. Some minor smudges on cover. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide to check availability etc.
Seller: O'Connell's Bookshop Est. 1957, Adelaide, SA, Australia
John Kerouac. The Town and the City. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good first UK edition. Binding square and tight. Some light foxing. Looseness between choir 5 and 6 of textblock. Bumping to spine ends, edges, corners. Wear to spine ends. Age-toning to spine, edges. Some discoloration to bottom right of front board. Slight warping to cloth of spine and boards. Some small marks to boards. General wear. A desirable first UK edition of Jack Kerouac's first novel.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Kerouac, Jack. The Town and the City. Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1951, 1951.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 244pp., Nice tight copy with only minor spotting to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket is frayed at peripheries and has small piece missing from rear panel at top edge. Generally a nice sound copy of Kerouac's first novel
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Kerouac, John [Jack]. The Town and the City. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled, toned at the spine, rubbed and with a few small closed tears at the edges and corners. Green cloth on the boards, mottled and toned at the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. A nice UK first printing of Kerouac's debut novel, originally published in the United States in 1950. In typical Kerouac fashion, it is an autobiographical work that juxtaposes life in small-town Massachusetts and big-city New York. In addition to citing critic Mark van Doren as calling Kerouac "wiser than Thomas Wolfe," it also praises the novel for including "some of the best football scenes ever written, scenes which really convey the excitement and hazards of the game."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Kerouac Jack. THE TOWN AND THE CITY. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine FIRST IN DJ slightly foxed. rub on dj.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first UK edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 499pp. Beige cloth lettered in red at the spine. Backstrip and upper edges of the boards lightly spotted. Endpapers partially browned and with some additional light spotting which also impacts several preliminary and (blank) concluding leaves. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Stein, with just a touch of spotting and tanning, several tiny closed tears and several slivers of loss from the spine panel ends. First published by Harcourt Brace in the US in March 1950, this distinctly more uncommon UK edition followed a year later. The novel was not a success: it was trashed by a number of reviewers, Kerouac's royalties did not exceed his advance of $1,000 and it was six years before the publication of his next novel, 'On the Road'.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom