NMLP P-012898 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Doctor Sax

Jack Kerouac · Grove Press (New York) · 1959

Grove Press US (1959) is the true first, written by Kerouac in Mexico City in 1952 but published only after the success of On the Road. The clothbound and wrappered (Evergreen E-160) issues were released simultaneously, the cloth issue being the scarcer. Confirm the Grove imprint and a first-printing copyright page.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-012898 for "Doctor Sax" by Jack Kerouac (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012898, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).