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Published by Viking Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 067084957XISBN 13: 9780670849574
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. This anthology of Kerouac's writing includes excerpts from the numerous volumes that tell the Legend of Duluoz, a selection of his poetry, his writings on Spontaneous Prose, Bop jazz and the Beats, his views on Buddhism, and several letters to important members of the Beat movement. 624 pages.
Published by Coward-McCann, 1968
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy with usual oxidation to the spine cloth in a Near Fine unclipped dj with a tiny closed edge tear and a touch of edge wear. Subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946," Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he published his first novel. Written in 1967 from the vantage point ot the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz gives a fascinating portrait of the young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination from an early age to be an important American writer.