27 “Because The Only People For Me Are The Mad Ones” 35KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York, 1957. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7200 First edition of Kerouac’s second and most important novel, “a physical and metaphysical journey across America.” “The novel’s composition has become a well-known anecdote in its own right... he fed a 120-foot roll of teletype into his typewriter, typed for three weeks and the result, largely unrevised, was On the Road” (Parker). “On the Road has become a classic of the Beat Movement with its stream-of-consciousness depiction of the rejection of mainstream American values set in a physical and metaphysical journey across America” (Book in America, 136). An extremely good copy. “A Girl Doesn’t Read This Sort Of Thing Without Her Lipstick” 36CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York, 1958. Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly. “If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well… He could capture period and place like few others” (Norman Mailer). With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” Book fine, dust jacket near-fine, with none of the usual fading to spine and only minor wear to spine ends, slight soiling to rear panel. “The Greatest Achievement In Spanish Literature Since Don Quixote” (Neruda) 37GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York, 1970. Octavo, original cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition in English of “one of the preeminent literary achievements of the century,” in scarce first-issue dust jacket. García Márquez’s wife Mercedes “had to pawn her hair dryer and their electric heater to pay for the postage to mail the finished manuscript... to his Argentine publisher, who printed 8000 copies. They sold out in a week… the popular response to One Hundred Years of Solitude was almost unimaginable” (Jon Lee Anderson). Pablo Neruda proclaimed it “the greatest achievement in Spanish literature since Don Quixote” (Klein, 26). A lovely copy.
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