KEROUAC, JACK [as JOHN.] The Town and the City. 8vo, publisher's red cloth, minor rubbing to spine tips and corners; dust jacket, spine panel faded, few wrinkles and scratches, cellotape repair mending short closed tear to lower spine panel corner on recto; front hinge split, contents clean. first edition of kerouac's first book, signed by him as John Kerouac on front flyleaf. Charters A1a. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, (1950)