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Jack Kerouac Owned Freud, Dostoyevsky, Kant,
Jack Kerouac Owned Freud, Dostoyevsky, Kant,
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Jack Kerouac Personally Owned Boxed Set of 8 Great Books

 

A Great Books Foundation, Seventh Year Course, 8-volume boxed set of classic selections from world literature, personally owned by famous mid-century writer Jack Kerouac (1922-1969). Each volume is stamped on the front fly leaf with both the Jack Kerouac Estate stamp, in addition to the raised blind seal from Executer of the Estate, John Sampas. Provenance: The boxed set will be accompanied by our Certificate of Authentication as well as an estate certification signed by John Shen-Sampas, executer of the Kerouac Estate. John Shen-Sampas is the son of John Sampas, friend and brother-in-law of Jack Kerouac, and the brother of Stella Kerouac, Jack’s wife.

 

Published in Chicago, Illinois in 1959, the paperback books show scattered foxing and discoloration to the covers, spines, and inner pages. Underlines and margin notes in an unknown hand are interspersed throughout the texts. Volume I includes a daily devotional page that has been used as a bookmark. The back endpapers of Volume IV has been copiously annotated. The 12vo. volumes are contained in a sturdy boxed set showing considerable wear. The boxed set measures 5" wide x 7.25" high x 5" deep.

 

The lot includes the following authors and works:

Volume I: Plato, "Gorgias" and Aristotle, "On the Soul"

Volume II: Bhagavad-Gita and Boethius, "The Consolation of Philosophy"

Volume III: Maimonides, "The Guide for the Perplexed", Selections, and Donne, "Holy Sonnets"

Volume IV: Moliere, "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope"; and Leibniz, "Discourse on Metaphysics"

Volume V: Kant, "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals" and Goethe, "Faust, Part I"

Volume VI: Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Idea", Selections, and Kierkegaard, "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", Selections

Volume VII: Dostoyevsky, "Notes from Underground" and Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"

Volume VIII: Freud, "The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter VII" and Shaw, "Man and Superman"

 

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

 

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