On the Road, Jack Kerouac
First edition, first printing of Kerouac's best known novel and a defining work of the postwar Beat and counterculture generations, in a third printing jacket.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in white; pp. (iv), 310. An about good copy in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy with a slight lean. Boards show general light wear and rubbing, with the spine lettered rubbed off, front cover lettering mostly rubbed off, light bubbling to the spine cloth. A handful of minor stains and smudges internally, else quite clean. Jacket remains bright and vivid with light shelfwear, small closed tear to rear panel, minor spot of restoration to top corner of front panel, protected in archival mylar.