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This low-priced Bantam Book
has been completely reset in a type face
designed for easy reading, and was
printed from new plates. It contains the complete
text of the original hard-cover edition.

NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED

BIG SUR
A Bantam Book / published by arrangment with
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.

Printing History
Farrar, Straus edition published September 1962
Bantam edition published September 1963

Back cover photo courtesy of Brown Bros.
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1962 by Jack Kerouac.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form,
by mimeograph or any other means, without permission in writing.
For information address: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc.,
19 Union Square W., New York 3, N. Y.
Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada.


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