On the Road (The First Edition Library)
Kerouac, Jack
Published by First Edition Library / Collectors Reprints, Inc., 1990
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Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. Jacket slightly wrinkled from previous owner applying mylar cover too tightly (now removed), minor blemishes to slipcase. 1990 Hard Cover. 310 pp. In three weeks in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road - typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic - rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic. Seller Inventory # 2350243
Bibliographic Details
Title: On the Road (The First Edition Library)
Publisher: First Edition Library / Collectors Reprints, Inc.
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: Reissue.
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On the Road (First Edition Library, facsimile of First Edition)
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Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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Boxed. Condition: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item. Seller Inventory # 1524954
1987 On the Road a Novel by Jack Kerouac - First Edition Library FEL Facsimile
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First Edition Library
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac. First Edition Library. FIRST EDITION FACSIMILE. 310 pages. Slip-case measures 8.75 x 5.75". 8vo. In good condition. Feather grey cloth slip-case. Top edge of text block stained red. Text block clean and bright. Cloth bindings tight and intact. Please see photos. First Editions Library (FEL) is a series of exact facsimile replicas of the first editions published by Collectors' Reprint Inc. Founded in 1968 by Henry Reath, a former president and publisher of Doubleday; his wife, Mary; and Kemp Battle, who also worked at Doubleday, the company prided itself on publishing the best of American literature as it first appeared. FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as well as points of issue as the originals. In many cases, the Reaths and Battle waded into debate amongst themselves about which editions were indeed the first. With the mission of duplicating the originals as closely as possible, the publisher hired engravers to reproduce typefaces that are no longer used. They dyed both sides of paper to create a shade of green no longer available for the dust jacket on Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The sewn bindings, stamping and even the original price on the jacket flap of FEL facsimiles are all exact replicas. The heart of the FEL series is literary fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, including modern classics like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom. However, there are four categories of exception: James Bond series (14 titles), mystery series (13 titles), science fiction series (12 titles), and Published in Paris series (3 titles). In total, FEL produced 112 titles. Sometime in the 1990s, FEL stopped production and sold the rights for 49 of its facsimiles to Easton Press. However, the remaining 63 titles are out-of-print. RAREN1987BDCB - 01/26 - EF10. Seller Inventory # RAREN1987BDCB