Doctor Sax Faust Part Three

Jack Kerouac

ISBN 10: 0233966633 / ISBN 13: 9780233966632

Published by Andre Deutsch, 1977

About this Item

Scarlet boards and spine, the latter lettered in silver. Jacket faded down and around spine. Text block edges foxed. Internally 2 cm x 5 mm red mark on top of jacket's front flap and a similar one at top of front pastedown; bookplate and a small patch of red spots on ffep. A few brown spots on pages 156, 157, five small marks against list of titles and title page a bit foxed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # X0859

Bibliographic Details

Title: Doctor Sax Faust Part Three

Publisher: Andre Deutsch

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Of all his books, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He began writing it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he was staying in Mexico with William Burroughs. Told through the character of Kerouac's fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel tells the story of his extraordinary childhood in Massachusetts. A clever and rebellious boy, playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to the movies, reading pulp comics and watching cartoons, Jack creates an imaginary world of strange, new possibilities. Within this world lies the weird and wonderful Doctor Sax

About the Author:

Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family. Having left college, he joined the merchant marines and began the restless wanderings that were to continue for the greater part of his life. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. On the Road, although written in 1951 (in a few hectic days on a scroll of newsprint), was not published until 1957 - it made him one of the most controversial and best-known writers of his time. Publication of his many other books, among them The Subterraneans, Doctor Sax and Desolation Angels, followed. Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Florida at the age of forty-seven.