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First UK Edition multiple issues 3000 copies in first edition Copies for Sale

First book, written under the name John Kerouac Copies for Sale Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York (1950). Kerouac is quoted having said "the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles." He has a penchant for the uncommon and untraditional and known for his candor and unconventional thinking.Ī letter from Kerouac to Marlon Brando proposing that he play the role of Dean in the anticipated film portrayal of On The Roadsold at auction through Christie's for $33,600 in 2005. Kerouac's lists of works include On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody, The Sea is My Brother, and Big Sur. He is considered a literary iconoclast, an individual who challenges or overturns traditional beliefs, customs, and values, whose work inspired an age of free thinking and spontaneity. Jack Kerouac, born Jean-Louis Kerouac was an American novelist and poet.