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First Edition. Octavo. A pleasing copy of Kerouac's thematic follow-up to On the Road. Minor scuffing to black cloth boards, with slight lean to textblock and creasing to lower corner of handful of pages; close to near fine. In unclipped illustrated jacket, with minor scuffing; also close to near fine.

The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-autobiographical story is based on the author's experiences during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac.