BIG SUR
Book Details + Condition: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (New York). First Edition, 1962. Hardcover (no jacket). 241 pages. Jack Kerouac's novel follows the attempt of a successful novelist, Jack Duluoz, to sober up during a short vacation at the Big Sur home of his friend, bookstore-owner, and Beat poet Lorenzo Monsanto. The novel is heavily autobiographical; Duluoz is Kerouac’s alter ego, who struggled with chronic alcoholism, as well as the personal fall-out from his successful and controversial novel, On the Road (1957). Firm binding; rubbed / scuffed corners and edges; fading to spine; scuffing to inside front board and rear endpapers (old, removed library stickers); pasted-in summary clipping to half-title page; perforated library stamps to rear endpapers; toning present; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
