The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1960. 20.2x14cm: unpaginated [18pp.]. First Edition, First Printing. White card wrappers, staplebound, with design by Jesse Sorrentino printed in purple to front cover and 95¢ price to rear. Trivial wear to wrapper edges. Wrappers a tad toned, primarily along fore edge and spine, with corresponding toning to pages. Small spot near gutter of pp. 3-4. Binding sound and internally clean. Near Fine.
A collection of 66 spiritual prose poems by Kerouac, originally written in the spring of 1956. On its composition, Kerouac (per Ann Charters) notes “Gary Snyder said, ‘All right Kerouac, it’s about time for you to write a sutra.’” Kerouac further notes that he wrote it in a shack in Mill Valley “In Pencil, carefully revised and everything, because it was a scripture. I had no right to be spontaneous.”
Charters A11.
Price: $450.00
Item #10595