Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz. Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, New York, 1968.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover is in good condition, save for corner bumping and rubbing. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Ex-library indications can be found on spine, FEP, half-title page, EP, and textblock. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout, save for light foxing. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. 280. Beige patterned paper covered boards, black cloth backstrip with titles printed in gold, family snapshot illustrated endpapers. Edges minimally soiled, slight loss to spine titles, crisp and square with tight binding. In the photo illustrated dust jacket, unclipped, with print date 6801: light edge-wear. Second printing of the first edition. The semi-autobiographical novel that became Kerouac's last to be published in his lifetime.Jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz. Coward - McCann, Inc., New York, 1968.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Solid copy in its first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Spine pushed in and gold lettering faded a great deal which is common but this one a little more than normal. Price intact jacket has small chips at spine ends with creasing. Rubbing on jacket spine. Front fold has tiny chips at top and bottom edges. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 22 x 15 cm. Octavo. 280pp. First edition with no additional printings noted. Black cloth spine, paper covered boards in dust jacket. Original price of $5.50 present on front flap. Some chipping to jacket at head and tail of spine. Light toning to edges of boards and pages. Kerouac's last book. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy in quarter black cloth, vertically striped grey paper covered boards, in a Near Fine purple and black dustwrapper, not price-clipped. The gilt is tarnished from the spine, as usual. The jacket has very minimal edge rubbing to points. 280pp. Text clean and unmarked. Q03526
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Vanity Of Duluoz. Coward-McCann, Inc., 1968.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 280 p. 22 cm. Includes Portraits. Kerouac's coming of age novel. A great book and good collectible Kerouac. Very good in good dust jacket. Book is solid and shows wear along top and bottom edges. DJ is worn, specifically at spine top and bottom. Some light chipping. First edition. First Edition. First Printing.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First printing of Kerouac's final novel, his last work published before his death in 1969. A lovely copy of Kerouac's last semi-autobiographical novel, spanning a young man's college years and the Second World War; the semi- in semi-autobiographical is tissue-thin, with just enough deniable masquerade for art's sake and his publisher's comfort. Allen Ginsberg is "Irwin Garden" and Neal Cassady is "Cody Pomeray," but Kerouac? "My name is Jack (Duluoz) Kerouac. I was born in Lowell, Mass. on 9 Lupine Road on March 12, 1922. 'Oh, you're putting me on.' I wrote this book, Vanity of Duluoz. 'Oh, you're putting me on.'" 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with grey and white decorative boards, gilt-stamped spine. In original unclipped ($5.50) dust jacket. Black and white photo-illustrated endpapers. [2], 280 pages. Spine lettering faded; faint smudge to front board. Light scuffing to jacket corners and spine ends. 2'' closed tear to rear flap. Faint pencil mark to front flap.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz.. Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1968.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz. COWARD-McCANN, INC., New York, 1968.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing of the FIRST EDITION HARD COVER WITH A DUST JACKET, inside of the book is in great shape, no marks, no names, no prices written in, original price on DJ Not price clipped, top & bottom of the spine a little worn endpapers & pages bright, jacket in tact with no stains or marks but various rips & tears (jacket all in one piece) code 6801 implies dust jacket was printed in January of 1968 first printing of the jacket as well as first of the book, all the printing on the jacket is bright & not sun faded in anyway (original price 5.50)
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz. Coward - McCann, Inc., New York, 1968.
Price: US$405.00 + shipping
Description: Very nice copy in its first printing. Surprisingly well preserved. A few letters in gilt on spine dulled a bit, else fine. Endpapers filled with author photos in his youth. Semi autobiographical novel shows author coming of age in the America of the 1930's and 40's. Price intact jacket has only light wear at spine ends and tiny closed tear from being Fine. No paper loss. No sunning to purple on jackets spine which is rare. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz.. Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1968.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition. Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. This is a semi-autobiographical account of Kerouac's early life. As the blurb describes, for Kerouac's alter-ego "this is the wild time, with drugs, writing, and love exploding into a binge of sheer non-stop experience that will eventually include a murder". Vanity of Duluoz was the last work published within his lifetime. Octavo. Original grey patterned boards, black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. Gilt of spine rubbed, top corners bumped; jacket unclipped, spine toned as usual, rubbed at folds, small snag to spine: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom