[KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack"), (1922-1969)]. -- [SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. New York: F.M. Lupton, n.d. 8o (180 x 115 mm). Original brown cloth gilt (a bit soiled). Provenance: Jack Kerouac (signature "J. Kerouac" on front free endpaper, and on p.176 a reference possibly in his hand).
[KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack"), (1922-1969)]. -- [SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. New York: F.M. Lupton, n.d. 8o (180 x 115 mm). Original brown cloth gilt (a bit soiled). Provenance: Jack Kerouac (signature "J. Kerouac" on front free endpaper, and on p.176 a reference possibly in his hand).

Details
[KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack"), (1922-1969)]. -- [SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. New York: F.M. Lupton, n.d. 8o (180 x 115 mm). Original brown cloth gilt (a bit soiled). Provenance: Jack Kerouac (signature "J. Kerouac" on front free endpaper, and on p.176 a reference possibly in his hand).

[With:]

MANN, Thomas (1875-1955). Stories of Three Decades. Translated from German into English by H.T. Lowe-Porter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 8o (211 x 142 mm). Original black cloth (a bit soiled). Provenance: Jack Kerouac (signature "J. Kerouac" on front free endpaper).

[With:]

KEATS, John (1795-1821). Complete Poems and Selected Letters. Ed. by Clarence DeWitt Thorpe. New York: Odyssey Press, 1935. 8o (178 x 116 mm). Frontispiece portrait of Keats. Original blue cloth (a bit soiled). Provenance: Inkstamp on front pastedown: "Property of U.S. Navy Serial No." with manuscript shelfmark beneath -- Jack Kerouac (signature "John Kerouac" dated 1949 on front free endpaper).

Kerouac served in the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marine in 1940-41. (3)

More from Books and Manuscripts

View All
View All