21 “Paris Is A Moveable Feast” 24HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York, 1964. Octavo, original half russet cloth, dust jacket. $950 First edition of Hemingway’s celebration of Paris, with eight pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Hemingway declared to a friend in 1950: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” With eight pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Hanneman 31A. Grissom A.36.1a. Dust jacket with one small chip to front panel, one short closed tear. A near-fine copy. “The Apprentice Work Of A Major Novelist” 25KEROUAC, John. The Town and the City. New York, 1950. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3800 First edition of Kerouac’s first book, by “John Kerouac,” published seven years before On the Road. The only book Kerouac published under his given name rather than the more casual “Jack” under which he published his Beat novels. Kerouac later would disclaim the novel as too traditional, strongly influenced by Thomas Wolfe and William Saroyan, but it remains linked to his later novels by its autobiographical nature. “In The Town and the City, Kerouac is just beginning to test his ability to dispense with plot… [the novel] is the apprentice work of a major novelist… notable for the highly consistent symbolism Kerouac develops to deal with troubling questions like loss, sickness, and death” (Nicosia, 318). Book with slight rubbing to extremities; dust jacket with light wear and one short closed tear from spine head. A near-fine copy.
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