I, DODO: A Poem Cycle.

KLINE, Fred; [Jack Kerouac].

$2,000.00

Item Number: 146634

San Francisco: Double-H Press, 1968.

First edition of this charming book of poetry; from the library of ‘On the Road’ author Jack Kerouac. Sextodecimo, original wrappers. The first printing of 2000 copies. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “to Jack Kerouac, with great admiration. Fred Kline. Nov. 11, 1968 Dos Palos.” The recipient, Jack Kerouac, is generally considered the father of the Beat movement, although he actively disliked such labels. His method was heavily influenced by the prolific explosion of jazz in 1960s America and later by his studies in Buddhism that originated with fellow beat and academic Gary Snyder. The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road instantly defined a generation upon publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, “the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as ‘beat.'” Additionally stamped on the front free endpaper with both a Jack Kerouac Estate stamp and the raised blind seal from the Executor of the Estate, John Sampas, who was the brother-in-law of Jack Kerouac and brother of Jack’s wife, Stella Kerouac. In near fine condition.

Fred R. Kline was an American art historian, writer, poet, and sculptor, known for his discoveries of lost art, including paintings, drawings and sculptures by Old Masters as well as 19th and 20th-century American and European artists. His discoveries have been featured in the New York Times, Art & Antiques, and Esquire, and he has written book chapters, the memoir 'Leonardo’s Holy Child,' and numerous articles for National Geographic Magazine about his experiences across the world as an "art explorer."