8vo. Original black cloth lettered in white, top edge stained red (very light toning); original dust jacket (price-clipped, restoration to spine ends, repaired 2" tear to rear); quarter green morocco folding case gilt. Provenance: Allen MacGuire (presentation inscription from Jan Kerouac).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with red top stain. In a FIRST STATE dust jacket with red and blue stripes on rear panel. INSCRIBED BY KEROUAC'S DAUGHTER JAN, "With best wishes." "[On the Road's] composition has become a well-known anecdote in its own right...in April 1951 he fed a 120-foot roll of teletype into his typewriter, typed for three weeks and the result, largely unrevised, was On the Road." (Parker, 339). Charters A2a.