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Jack Kerouac. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 3rd printing. 398pp. Features "The Great Rememberer," Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Very Good condition; slight bumps to top edge & lower spine, very tiny foxing on fore edge of text block, o/w quite handsome, jacketless volume. "'What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW.'--Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes. Written in 1951-52, VISIONS OF CODY was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Writing in a radical, experimental form ('the New Journalism fifteen years early,' as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel ), Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady during the late forties, which he captured in different form in On the Road. Here are the members of the Beat Generation as they were in the years before any label had been affixed to them. Here is the postwar America that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently. His ecstatic sense of superabundant reality is informed by the knowledge of 'I'm writing this book because we're all going to die. . . . My heart broke in the general despair and opened up inward to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream.' [] 'The most sincere and holy writing I know of our age.'--Allen Ginsberg." [publisher copy] "You will find some of Kerouac's very best writing in this book. It is funny, it is serious. It is eloquent. To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac's wildest writing."--The New York Times Book Review. "VISIONS OF CODY is Kerouac's greatest book, according to his own opinion, and its music is testimony to his verbal inventiveness and virtuosity . . . the range and variation of style within his remarkably growing bookshelf is just as remarkable . . . there is a grace, a majesty, and a tenderness to his language . . . both the inspiration and the content of this literature is of an intuitive, emotional, and mystical nature."--The Village Voice. Near pristine jacketless hardcover w/brillant corners (some bumped) & crisp edges (slightly foxed), a square & tight binding, all quite presentable.
Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$41.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: McGraw Hill, New York, 1972, Hardcover, Third Printing of the First Edition - 'First Edition' is stated but number line indicates it is a third printing. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Book Condition: very light bump to the spine base, also to two forward corners on the front board - all of the bumps are quite small; a bit dusty on the forward text edge and just a bit at the text edge base - all are pretty much negligible; very, very light spine fade to the gold titles on the spine - otherwise the book is tight and clean and about Near Fine minus, without the dustjacket.
Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Kerouac, Jack. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Crown, heel, and corners of boards bumped; tiny dent about 1" up from heel; page edges tanned and stained, previous owner's initials on front free endpaper and gift inscription on halftitle page. Jacket priceclipped, rubbed, stained, worn, chipped, torn, tape-repaired. Size: 8vo
Seller: Maya Jones Books, Cerrillos, NM, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, USA, 1972.
Price: US$63.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: xii, 398pp. Light brown endpapers. Top edge of textblock dyed dark brown. Maroon cloth w blindstamp lettering to cover, gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. With an Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 2nd printing.
Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Kerouac, Jack; Allen Ginsberg. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in unclipped very good dustjacket (mylar protected), moderately worn with a bit of loss at tips and head of spine. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, USA, 1972.
Price: US$71.05 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: xii, 398pp. Light brown endpapers. Top edge of textblock dyed dark brown. Maroon cloth w blindstamp lettering to cover, gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and tight. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in mylar cover. Octavo. With an Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 3rd printing.
Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1972.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. Stated First Edition but the number line starts with 2. No markings. Attractive copy. $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket, in a protective cover. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small 4to. Pp. xii, [2], 3-398. Light dust-soiling to top edge. Bound in full maroon cloth stamped in blind on front board, gilt lettering on spine. Light dust soiling on top edge. In the illustrated dust jacket, price of $8.95 intact on front flap. Includes an unedited transcription of a 128âpage taped conversation. With heavy emphasis on Kerouac's well-known embrace of spontaneity, presenting a cross between a diluted Thomas Wolfe early Henry Miller, but lacking, in a way, the latter's exquisite ear.The dust jacket is especially well preserved; now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1972.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition with the '1' in a number line and $8.95 on flap. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg to this late work by the great Beat writer, "the book in which Kerouac found his true voice." A clean, unmarked copy in a fine dust jacket protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill Book Co, New York, 1972.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [xii], 398 pp. Cloth in dustrapper, npc, ex-lib, else very good. (30390). Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
KEROUAC, JACK. VISIONS OF CODY. NEW YORK NY MCGRAW-HILL BOOK CO PUB 1972., 1972.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: NEAR FINE IN VERY GOOD+ D.J. INTRODUCTION BY ALLEN GINSBERG D.J. HAS A BIT OF LIGHT WEAR AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A COUPLE OF SHORT TEARS AT THE TOP EDGE, AND A COUPLE OF SMALL ABRASIONS NEAR THE TOP OF THE REAR PANEL. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. Mcgraw-hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Maroon cloth with blind stamping on top board and gold lettering on spine. Brown topstain has light scratch marks on top edges, minor spotting to bottom edges. Jacket has minor edgewear, one tiny chip and two faint water spots. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody.. New York, McGraw-Hill, (1972)., 1972.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, with first edition statement on copyright page and full number series from 1 on. About fine copy in like dust jacket. Brown top-edge stain and tinted tan endpapers. Jacket not price-clipped. Ownership signature of writer Meyer Liben in upper right corner of front free endpaper. Long introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Priority Mail only on foreign orders.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack; Allen Ginsberg. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in price-clipped else fine dustjacket (mylar protected). Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 398 pp. Beautiful copy. photos available on request.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Price: US$126.68 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. VISIONS OF CODY. McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Price: US$127.05 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.8
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill Education, 1972.
Price: US$127.83 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Price: US$127.96 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Price: US$128.74 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in the publisher's original burgundy cloth over boards, cover stamped in blind, spine stamped in gilt. All pages are tight and bright. Dust jacket is rubbed at the extremities with light sunning to the spine and very small closed tears to the top and bottom edges. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody (Introduction Allen Ginsberg). McGraw-Hill,, 1972.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition stated (Colpyright page). A Near Fine copy in Near Fine, unclipped. 8vo, Maroon cloth, gilt titles, maroon topstain. xii + 398pp. Price of $8.95 intact on dust jacket. Dust jacket is practically as new: Compare the color of the inner laps and outer dj is it is practically as new. The book itself as new. "What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes. Written in 1951-52, Visions of Cody was an underground legend by the time it was finally published in 1972. Writing in a radical, experimental form ("the New Journalism fifteen years early," as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac created the ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady during the late forties, which he captured in different form in On the Road. Here are the members of the Beat Generatoin as they were in the years before any label had been affixed to them. Here is the postwar America that Kerouac knew so well and celebrated so magnificently. His ecstatic sense of superabundant reality is informed by the knowledge of mortality: "I'm writing this book because we're all going to die. . . . My heart broke in the general despair and opened up inward to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream."
Seller: LEA BOOK DISTRIBUTORS, Jamaica, NY, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Visions of Cody" by Jack Kerouac. Introd. A. Ginsberg. New York etc., McGraw-HIll, 1972 first American edition first printing. Book in good condition with first issue dust jacket in good condition with minor shelf wear.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
KEROUAC, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 8vo, maroon cloth with matching topstain. d.w. New York: McGraw Hill, (1972). First Edition. Gift inscription on fly-leaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KEROUAC, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. A couple of spots of foxing on the foredge, still fine in fine, price-clipped dustjacket. Posthumously published novel written in 1951-52.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack.. Visions of Cody.. McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine tight copy in Near Fine, price-clipped, dust jacket. This edition is the first complete text of this posthumous road novel that Kerouac began writing in 1951. An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. McGraw Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Maroon cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. r.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
KEROUAC, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. 8vo, maroon cloth with matching topstain. d.w. New York: McGraw Hill, (1972). First Edition. Fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jack Kerouac. VISIONS OF CODY. McGraw Hill, New York, 1972.
Price: US$769.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner name on front pastedown. Light stain on top text block edge.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1972.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Edition" printed on the copyright page and the number line beginning with 1. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. This First Issue dustjacket has the $8.95 printed price present. The book is in excellent condition and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.