A rare Jack Kerouac-inscribed first edition presentation copy of seminal beat novel On the Road has auctioned in London for £22,500 ($33,972).
The slim volume, which boasts its original dust jacket, was a gift from Kerouac to his cousin Harvey's wife, Doris.
The iconoclastic author has scrawled the typically truncated message: "To Doris / Great party! / Jack Kerouac".
 Kerouac typed On the Road between 1947 and 1951 on a single scroll of paper. The original scroll was bought in 2001 by American football magnate Jim Irsay for $2.43m |
Sotheby's asserts: "With one exception, Kerouac did not undertake promotional signings for his work, so inscribed copies of his books are comparatively rare."
The book sold on July 10, as part of Sotheby's English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations sale, alongside three original EH Shepard Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations and Samuel Beckett's prized Murphy manuscript.
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