KEROUAC (Jack).
Le Vagabond solitaire. Paris, Gallimard, 1969. In-12, black box, ewe's belly leather impressions on the boards, abstract decoration composed of a mosaic of tawny box strip crossing the boards, the spine and the lower counterpart and eight gilt dots, five of which are on a small piece of mosaic box, smooth spine, ochre textured paper lining and endpapers, untrimmed, cover and spine, matching transparent spine folder and lined slipcase (Devauchelle). First edition of the first French translation, edited by Jean Autret.
One of 26 copies on pur fil, the only large paper.
A collection of eight stories on the theme of travel, Le Vagabond solitaire (Lonesome Traveler) was published in the United States in 1960. The French translation was published in June 1969, four months before Kerouac's death.
