8vo. Original cloth (very light toning to front free endpaper); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket; folding case (spotting to rear jacket, very light sunning to spine, minor edgewear).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE in first state dust jacket with $3.95 price and red top stain. "[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.