First Beat Novel
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Notes: The author's debut novel and one of the first Beat novels. "Their long nights involve liquor and marijuana, with the beat of bebop in the background, and they drift close to the fringes of the underworld. But these young people are neither callous nor criminal. They have talent, they seek belief; and they want to love."—dust jacket.
Edition + Condition: First edition (Scribner's seal and the "A" on the copyright page). A very good or better hardcover copy (small owner's ink stamp on front pastedown) in a very good, slightly spine-faded dust jacket with some surface scuffing and wear at the spine ends.
Publication: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
Item No: #20276
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