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General wear: small bookplate, previous owner markings on FEP, foxing on EPs and fore edges--otherwise very good condition First published 1950 Fifth line of copyright page copyright credited to Jack Kerouac, 1958, DJ flap I5S net DATE PUBLISHED: 1950S CIRCA EDITION: FIRST 244.

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.