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Author: Kerouac, Jack
Title: Typed manuscript leaf from Lonesome Traveler, signed and dated by Kerouac
Place: [No place]
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Date: January 23, 1969
Item # : 168640
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   230
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Price realized   $ 862
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Description:
One-page, four lines, typed and boldly signed by Jack Kerouac, dated 1-23-69. Measures 11x8½".
Typescript reads: "We walked off the gangplank in the silence of the afternoon. The second cook's car en route to New Orleans zoomed by us on the highway." These are the last two sentences from the chapter "Slobs of the Sea" in Lonesome Traveler.
Condition:
Original folds; two tiny pieces of tape and residue on verso of top edge, faint pencil and blue pencil writing (mostly erased) on verso, else fine.
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