Description

• Third Printing [Viking Press, New York, 1957]; [2 blank], [iv], 310, [4 blank] pages; black cloth, white title on front board, titling to spine, pink [slightly faded from red] topstain, spine ends a little bumped, block marked on base, lightly shelfworn, bookseller stamp inside front board, [+ offsetting on ffep], an excellent copy; in the very good, price-clipped dustjacket, rubbed, chipped [without significant loss], 1cm closed tear at top
• The classic Beat novel, this copy printed in the same year as the First [& Second] Printing
• Crosses the American continent with Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarty & their set of wild bohemian friends
• Kerouac’s second novel [after The Town & The City] became an anthem for a generation

But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’