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Lonesome Traveller
by Jack Kerouac
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
CA$262.10CA$235.89
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch, 1962. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None . Bright first UK edition of this collection of essays by famous American author Jack Kerouac. First published in the US in 1960. This is a first UK edition. A collection of short essays and sketches of travel through the US, Mexico, Morocco, the UK, and France. Concerned with themes of relationship, jobs, and life on the road. Written by Jack Kerouac, famous American author of On the Road. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. With three newspaper articles about Kerouac loosely inserted. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent with minor shelf wear only, lightly chipped to head and tail of spine, minor closed tear to head of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Minor offsetting to pp. 22-23 caused by a previous owner's inserting of newspaper cuts, otherwise pages bright and clean. Near Fine
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 843A74
- Title
- Lonesome Traveller
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 8.5" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- jack kerouac essays first editions essays
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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