COLLECTED POEMS
New York: The Library of America, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac’s sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac’s major poetic works - Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Pomes All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus - along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. Edited by Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell. Octavo: xxx, 746, [4] pp. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling, decorative endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase. Fine. Item #79956
ISBN: 9781598531947
Price: $40.00