Jack Kerouac — On the Road

London, Andre Deutsch, 1959. Cloth. A bright third impression of Jack Kerouac's iconic semi-autobiographical novel in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition, third impression of this work, published the year following the first edition. Jack Kerouac's post-war Beat and Counterculture generation defining work based on the author's own travels around the US. The novel takes place against a background of jazz, poetry, and drug use, and features many cultural key figures such as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped with minor shelf wear, sunned to spine, minor tape repair to extremity front fly leaf. Ink inscription to introduction, undated. Light minor odd spotting to fore edge only affecting endpapers lightly, pages otherwise bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.