8vo. Original black cloth lettered in white, top edge stained red (faint spotting to spine, a touch of spotting to rear flap); dust jacket (very light wear to spine ends).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with red top stain. In a FIRST STATE dust jacket with red and blue stripes on rear panel. "[On the Road's] composition has become a well-known anecdote in its own right...in April 1951 he fed a 120-foot roll of teletype into his typewriter, typed for three weeks and the result, largely unrevised, was On the Road." (Parker, 339). Charters A2a. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY.