Scarce unsigned first edition book: The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac. First edition. NY: Grove Press, 1958. Clothbound hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25, 111 pages. This book was published simultaneously in three editions: a paperback Evergreen Book (E-99) edition, this hardcover edition, and a specially bound limited edition of 100 numbered copies. Collector’s pencil notations to the first free end page attest that this edition was issued sans dust jacket and was one of a limited release of 300 hardcover copies. Book condition: VG/None, with minor foxing to boards.
