Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Quilt for At the Street (1952)

This falls below the cat­e­pass­ry, “If you wish to have it finished proper, you must do it your­self.”

In 1950, when Jack Ker­ouac launched his first nov­el, The The town and the Town, he was once not up to inspired by means of the ebook cov­er professional­duced by means of his pub­lish­er, Har­courtroom Brace. (Click on right here to see why.) So, in 1952, when he started store­ping his sec­ond nov­el, the good beat clas­sic At the Street, Ker­ouac went forward and designed his personal cov­er. He despatched it to a poten­tial pub­lish­er A.A. Wyn, with a lit­tle be aware typed on the very best:

Expensive Mr. Wyn:

I sub­mit this as my concept of an enchantment­ing com­mer­cial cov­er expres­sive of the ebook. The cov­er for “The The town and the Town” was once as boring because the name and the pho­to again­flap. Wilbur Pippin’s pho­to of me is the according to­fect At the Street one … it’s going to seem like the face of the fig­ure beneath.

J.Okay.

Wyn became down the nov­el, and it could­n’t get pub­lished till 1957. It might, how­ev­er, turn into a easiest­supplier and be pub­lished with many dif­fer­ent cov­ers over the years. They’re all on dis­play right here.

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