London, Andre Deutsch, 1974
First UK hardback edition of Jack Kerouac's autobiographical work about his early relationship with his teenage sweetheart, Mary Carney, in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1938 to 1939. The book was first published in the UK as a paperback original (PBO) by Panther Books in 1960, preceded by the American first edition, which was also a PBO, published by Avon Books in 1959.
First UK hardback edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's pink cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, a near-fine example.
First UK hardback edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's pink cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, a near-fine example.
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