Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard. Farrar, Straus, and Company, New York, New York, 1963.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal rubbing. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard. Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1963.
Price: US$69.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing Stated. Quarter black cloth over decorative paper covered boards; this hardcover binding is solid and holding tight with some sunning along the upper edge of the boards and wear to the lower board corners. The book's interior and text are clean and unmarked. NOT ex-lib. A nice, solid first printing of this later Kerouac novel. 152pp.
Seller: Bowman Books, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard:. NY Farrar Straus.1963 Stated first edition., 1963.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cloth hard cover.large 8vo.Illustrations by James Spanfeller.151 pages.very good copy in very good dust JACKET.original price present
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. VISIONS OF GERARD. Farrar, Straus and Co.: NY (1963), 1963.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: 8.25 x 5.5", cloth backed patterned boards, 152pp, covers a little rubbed, extremities a little worn, brown mark on ffep and spots on foredge of textblock, in a rubbed, spotted (esp. front cover), spine-browned dustjacket with a tear and crease at the upper edge of front cover. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. Visions Of Gerard. Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1963.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first printing. There is very slight fading to the board edges as well as to the spine. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy, in the dust jacket which has minor edge wear, but whose spine is darkened.
Seller: Proteus Bound, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
(Literature) KEROUAC, Jack. Visions of Gerard. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1963.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 Inches. 148 PP. Stated First Printing copy. Original price of $3.95 intact on front flap. Hints of wear to board edges. Dust jacket very clean, save for mild toning to edges and spine. An attractive copy overall.
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard. Farrar, Straus, and Company, New York, 1963.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An autobiographical novel of Kerouac's childhood and the death of his older brother. First edition (states "First Printing, 1963"). A near fine hardcover copy, a bit faded along the top edge of the boards, in a very good dust jacket with some shelfwear along the edges and tape repairs on the back (verso) at the spine ends.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard (1st printing). Farrar Straus Cudahy, New York, 1963.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Farrar Straus & Cudahy. New York. 1963. 152 pages. First edition, 1st printing in original DJ with $3.95 price intact on DJ flap. Book is about near fine. No flaws of note. Clean panels and endpapers; lightest faint sunning along edge (barely). Book is clean and tight. DJ shows minor handling and soiling. 1 small open chip; one tiny open chip; small textural scuff. Light shelf rubbing with a couple of tiny faint stains.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack; Spanfeller, James. VISIONS OF GERARD. Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1963.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First printing of Kerouac's autobiographical novel of his brother's death. Lightly fictionalized portrait of Kerouac's youth and his short-lived older brother Gerard, presented in a hazy glow of sanctity and urgent nostalgia. The first volume of the 'Duluoz legend,' VISIONS OF GERARD was written in 1956, though not published until 1963. While derided as 'hipster yawping' by contemporary critics, any irregularities of punctuation or slang are less striking than its pervasive religiosity; Kerouac himself esteemed it highly among his own works, and the Gerard of the book is less an accurately remembered child than absolute purity in a child's form, the catalyst for Kerouac's own apprehension of divine mysteries: "the definite and immortal idealism which had been imparted me by my holy brother." 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with decorative salmon-pink and white boards. Gilt-titled spine. In original unclipped ($3.95) dust jacket. Illustrations by James Spanfeller throughout. [2], 152 pages. Dampstaining to jacket spine, primarily visible on verso; 1'' closed tear to upper edge of rear joint, minor soil and spotting.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack.. Visions of Gerard.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux., 1963.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good+ copy in very good+ to near fine dust jacket. (Faint ink stamp at top edge. Another ink stamp on front end-paper. 2 postage-stamp size tape impressions at top & bottom of each pastedown. Glue out-line from pocket removal on rear end-paper. A few short edge tears in jacket. Spine slightly age toned. Couple tiny chips at edges of jacket. Small ding at bottom edge of one board. ) An attractive copy despite flaws. ; 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"; 152 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 pink and white floral-patterned paper over boards, quarterbound in black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Touch of sunning to upper board edges, with four small stains to lower text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, sunned at spine and extremities, with a bit of dust-soil and several short tears; Very Good+.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard. Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good Hardcover with dustjacket, stated first printing 1963, illustrations by James Spanfeller
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard. Farrar Straus, New York, 1963.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 150 pages. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by James Spanfelller. The first book in his Duluoz stories. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with very faint tanning to the spine. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Gerard. Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1963.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Printing, 1963" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy. The ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color and has the publisher's 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 with minor wear to the edges. 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. Visions of Gerard. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1963. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Absolutely beautiful very rare first printing! Pristine condition. Virtually no shelf wear. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Very rare hard to find. a true rare gem! Library of Congress Card Catalog No. 63-16472
Seller: Boston Book World, Swampscott, MA, U.S.A.