This copy is in a full morocco binding with a hand-painted front panel.? With a clamshell box which has a morocco label.'Desolation Angels' is a part of Jack Kerouac's Dulouz Legend. This copy has been beautifully bound by the Cottage Bindery of Bath, with their binder's stamp to the front pastedown. A finely bound, first edition copy of Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel 'Desolation Angels'. Spine ends mildly bumped, with very light edgewear. I doubt / that I'll finish it." Some edgewear to jacket, with a couple tiny chips. Some ink underlining to introduction, tapering off completely by page 12 note in ink to page 1: "I don't really know why I'm / going to bother starting this. Owner's name in ink to top corner of front flyleaf dated 1965. Original pictorial price-clipped orange, yellow, and white dust jacket designed by Sam Salant. Original orange publisher's cloth binding with gilt titles to front board and spine. Another peek into the world of Beat greats. In two sections, it chronicles his painfully lonely stint as a fire lookout as he tries to live a Zen life, his exploits in San Francisco, Mexico, and New York, and the time immediately after he found fame with ON THE ROAD. Kerouac "wrote by hand by candlelight" (Charters) after which the manuscript was "passed from hand to hand in the literary underground" (dust jacket) until it was finally published in 1965. First edition of this sequel of sorts to DHARMA BUMS, in which Kerouac weaves Buddhist themes through memoir. Condition: Very good plus in like jacket.
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