1960 Scarce First edition, First printing - Rimbaud by Beat Generation Novelist Jack Kerouac.

The first printing of Jack Kerouac’s Rimbaud, issued by City Lights Books in 1960 as a folded broadside on yellow paper, with the original 35-cent price.

Author: Jack Kerouac.
Title: Rimbaud.
Publisher: San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1960.
Edition: First edition, first printing, with printed 35¢ price; one of 2,000 copies (Charters A14).
Language: English.
Pages: Single folded sheet, printed on both sides.
Size: 5 × 5 inches folded; 25 × 5 inches unfolded.
Binding: Folded broadside printed in black on yellow paper, housed in a removable protective Mylar cover. Edges and corners well preserved.
Content: Very good to near fine; paper bright and clean, with crisp folds.
Illustrations: None specified; typographic broadside.

Estimate: USD 600–800.

The book: Kerouac’s 202-line poem addresses the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. It first appeared in Yugen, no. 6, in 1960, before being issued separately by City Lights Books in this folded broadside format.

The first printing is identified by the printed 35-cent price and recorded in Ann Charters’s Kerouac bibliography as A14. The format comprises a single sheet folded to a compact square and opening to a strip measuring approximately 25 inches.

The author: Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) was an American novelist and poet associated with the Beat Generation. His works include On the Road (1957), The Dharma Bums (1958) and Mexico City Blues (1959).