Jack Kerouac / On the Road Unrecorded Hardcover Issue 1958

Description: Unrecorded Hardcover IssueOn the Road [Unrecorded Hardcover Issue] Author: Kerouac, Jack Title: On the Road [Unrecorded Hardcover Issue] Publication: (N.-pl.): (illegible), [ca. 1958] Description: Hardcover. This is an unusual commercially produced hardcover version of Kerouac's great Beat novel. The pages are from the first printing of the Signet paperback (September 1958), but the binding is a two-part blue and gold cloth over boards. The spine and front cover are stamped in gilt. The spine has a publisher's logo at the base consisting of three books, each with a letter on the spine. The title is handwritten (?) on the spine and "Kerouac" is written (or printed?) near the bottom edge of the front cover. Your cataloguer and several other booksellers have been unable to read the initials of the publisher in the logo.Ann Charters's Kerouac bibliography mentions a hardcover Compass edition from 1959 but Compass used a different logo and the page size is larger. If I were to speculate, I would guess that this edition was prepared for libraries or for the export market. In any case, it is a very scarce variant, clearly commercially produced rather than a handmade one-off, that appears unrecorded in the Kerouac bibliographies. Very good. Cover faded as spine; some foxing to the inside covers, thus very good. Bound from the first printing sheets of the Signet paperback edition. Seller ID: 361600 Subject: FICTION Downtown Brown Books has been selling on eBay since 1998. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the International Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), and the Cascade Booksellers Association (CBA), and we adhere to their codes of ethics. Condition grading is done in compliance with IOBA's published standards. Terms All orders ship within one business day. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail. Expedited and international shipping are also available. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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