Good, ex-libris copy of this 1959 Kerouac book - Usual lbrary markings - No tears - Tight spine - Light page-browning - 241 pages - Inner pages have no writing, marks, or tears. - Stated First Evergreen Edition, 1959 - Fifth Printing

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 publishes his first novel.

Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - 268 pages

Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 183 pages -

Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages -

Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages -

Like-new condition - Appears unead - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - 307 pages.

1st edition. ~ Blue card wrappers, F. 38pp, Illustrated card wrappers, a fine copy. ~ The first separate issue of this short Kerouac piece, intended to represent the babble of World tongues at midnight in the window. Old Angel Midnight first appeared in 1959 in Big Table number 1, was suppressed & then added to later. This is the first 49 [of 67] paragraphs that make up the text. Charters A31.

Very Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Paperback First U.K. Paperback Edition Minor rubbing to extremities otherwise unopened.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Good Hard Cover First U.K. Edition Ex-library edition.