KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack") (1922-1969). Mexico City Blues. New York: Grove Press, 1959. FIRST EDITION, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET.
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KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack") (1922-1969). Mexico City Blues. New York: Grove Press, 1959.
8vo. Original grey cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few tiny creases).
FIRST EDITION, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET printed entirely in black. Kerouac's first published poem, written in 242 choruses, which he first tried to publish in 1957 as part of City Lights Books Pocket Poets series. After the publication of The Dharma Bums in 1958, Allan Ginsberg took the book to Grove Press and New Directions Press on his friend's behalf, and this edition was eventually published in 1959. Charters A8a.
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