Beat Generation & Counter Culture
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First edition; 8vo; light browning to free endpapers; publisher's yellow cloth, a little darkened and spotted toward extremities, but overall very good; printed dust-jacket with publisher's device to lower panel, spine and fore-edges browned and rubbed, some edge wear and light creasing, general light dust-soiling, small hole to spine.
£225 -
First American edition, first printing, Henry Miller's copy, annotated by him; 8vo; publisher's quarter blue cloth, grey boards, decoration to upper board in blue, titles to spine in black, an excellent copy, dust-jacket somewhat worn; housed in a blue cloth folding box.
£1,250 -
First American edition, first printing, Henry Miller's copy, annotated; 8vo; publisher's green cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, red topstain, dust jacket, sunned and a little frayed and marked dust jacket.
£950 -
First edition, first issue with text-block printed on heavier stock and in paler red cloth with blind rule to covers; 8vo; vorticistic title vignette and tail-piece, foxing to terminal leaves and extremities of text block; publisher's light red cloth, very good, printed dust-jacket with some minor marking, toning to spine, a few tears and chips to extremities.
£500 -
First UK edition, inscribed by Ken Kesey and one of the Merry Pranksters to the front endpapers; publisher's boards, dust-jacket, a little minor rubbing at corners but overall very good.
£1,350 -
First edition; large 8vo (215 x 150 mm.); some toning to margins as usual, small closed tear and ink stamp to final blank leaf; publisher's printed wrappers, 2 minor tape reinforcements to inside of each wrapper with small closed tear to top edge of lower wrapper, but overall very good.
£850 -
First American trade edition; 8vo; gift inscription on front free endpaper; publisher's taupe cloth, dust-jacket with design by Roy Kuhlman, spine slightly darkened, rubbed and frayed with slight loss to ends, otherwise a good example.`
£375 -
First edition; 8vo; publisher's green printed wrappers, minor rubbing to spine edges but overall very good.
£195 -
First edition; 8vo; neat bookplate to front free endpaper, tape reinforcement to rear hinge; publisher's green printed wrappers, spine slightly dulled, price stamp NF 18 to lower cover with original price scored through.
£165 -
First edition, first impression; 8vo; browning to text block as usual; publisher's pictorial wrappers, very mild rubbing to extremities, overall a fine, bright copy.
£950