Orpheus Emerged

First edition. 8vo. 176pp. Full-bound burnt orange cloth, silver foil titles, pictorial dust jacket (priced £12.99 U.K. to front flap). Foreword, introduction by Robert Creeley, excerpts from Kerouac's journals, the Beat Movement, brief biography, introduction to Lonesome Traveler, selected bibliographies to rear. Distributed minus the CD-ROM in the U.K.

Thin, sunned strip to d/w panels, else Fine.

"A lost classic", recently re-discovered by his estate, and written in 1945 when the author was just 23, chronicling the "passions, conflicts and dreams of a group of bohemians searching for the truth." The first full-length work to be published since the author's death in 1969. "Rebellion, self-destructive behavior, alcoholism – all the Kerouac hallmarks are in evidence." –Publishers Weekly