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KEROUAC, JACK. Visions of Gerard. Illustrations by James Spanfeller. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, trace of fading to board extremities; pictorial dust jacket; light wear to extremities, tiny chips to spine panel tips, unclipped; bookplate with gluestain. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, (1963)
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Justin Brierly on the author's complimentary bookplate; printed "…compliments of The Author," after, Kerouac has added in type, "Hullo Justin." Brierly was an educator and lawyer from Denver who served as a mentor of sorts to the teenaged Neil Cassady. Cassady was introduced in 1946 to Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg by another Brierly protégé, Hal Chase, who Brierly had helped place at Columbia University. Kerouac in turn met Brierly in 1947 during a trip to see Cassady in Denver and established a friendship with him. In 1950, Brierly wrote an article for the Denver Post about Kerouac's first book, The Town and the City, and organized a signing for him in Denver. A nice association copy.
