(Hawkes, John; Miller, Arthur; Simpson, Louis; Hecht, Anthony; Algren, Nelson; et al). (Bellow, Saul; Ahser, Aaron; Botsford, Keith; editors).

The Noble Savage 5.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1962). (1962). Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1962). (1962). Good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial black-and-white wraps titled in red. The covers are soiled and the spine and edges of the covers are slightly darkened with minor creasing to the inner edges. 253 & [2] pages. Very good. First edition. Among the contents are stories by John Hawkes and Arthur Miller, poems by Louis Simpson and Anthony Hecht and nonfiction by Nelson Algren. Good .

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ALGREN, Nelson

America Eats

Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1992. Hardcover. Preface by Louis I. Szathmary II. Foreword by David E. Schoonover. Small 4to. Red cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 123pp. Illustrrations. Fine/fine. Small nonauthorial gift inscription on half-title verso. Superbly pristine and tight first edition of Algren's never-published WPA writings for an abandoned "America Eats" program -- a volume in "The Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series. .

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Algren, Nelson

"The Brother's House" in Story (October, 1934)

New York, Story Press, 1935. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Fine with only minor wear. Fine.

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Algren,Nelson.

Chi ha perduto un americano?

Traduz.di Marina Valente. Milano, 1966, Arnoldo Mondadori Ed. Coll.Quaderni della Medusa,72. cm.11,7x19,5, pp.394, legatura ed.cartonata, sovracc

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Algren, Nelson

"Fragmentary, Intense" [review] in Poetry (January, 1941)

Chicago, Poetry, 1941. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with light wear. Near Fine.

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Algren, Nelson

"God Bless the Lonesome Gas Man" in The Dude (March, 1962)

New York, Mystery Publishing, 1962. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with rubbing along the spine. Near Fine.

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Algren, Nelson

"The Heroes" in Escapade (June, 1958)

Derby, CT, Bruce, 1956. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers. Near Fine.

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Algren, Nelson

The Last Carousel

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1973. 1st edition . Hardcover. 435 p. Very good condition/good.

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ALGREN, NELSON

The Last Carousel

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full white linen cloth with shiny red and blue lettering on the spine. Head and heel of spine have very slight shelf-wear, one tiny smudge on front endpaper, else unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed on the spine and one small spot on the front cover. NEAR FINE/ VERY GOOD+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 435 pp. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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ALGREN, Nelson

The Last Carousel

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Ivory cloth with red and blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 435pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and single archivally mended (on verso) tear. Tight and nice first edition of Algren's short stories and short nonfiction. The author inscribes and signs the front flyleaf in blue and green marker (one atop the other) quite large and bold: "Best wishes of / the / Season to / Phil Gerber / from / Nelson Algren / 1980," adding a sketch of his trademark back side of a seated cat in blue, green and yellow markers. Philip L. Gerber (1923-2005) was a noted English professor at the State University of New York at Brockport and author of several academic titles, including studies of Theodore Dreiser and Willa Cather in the popular "Twayne's United States Authors Series." Signed copies of this title are rarely encountered. Very scarce. BRUCCOLI A 11.1. .

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Algren, Nelson

"Lovers, Sec-fiends, Bugs in Flight" in Nugget, volume one, number five (October, 1956)

New York, 1956. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers. Near Fine.

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Algren, Nelson

The Man with the Golden Arm

Garden City, NY, Doubleday and Company, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, stated. Beige cloth. No jacket. 343 pp. SIGNED by the author on the second blank endpaper. First edition of this winner of the 1950 National Book Award, and considered a classic of modern American literature. GOOD condition. Moderate foxing to the covers, with minor soiling and discoloration. Pen doodle to the upper spine. Light rippling to the cloth along the upper front cover. Minor toning to the paper in the interior. Good/No Jacket.

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Algren, Nelson

The Man With the Golden Arm

Garden City, Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. Very good in worn dust jacket.

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ALGREN, Nelson

The Man with the Golden Arm

Greenwich, CT, Crest Book, 1964. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 365pp, (3pp ads). Good. Edgeworn and text block age toned, with front wrapper and some edges professionally, archivally strengthened. Housed in custom lavender cloth (to match front wrapper) clamshell case with with gilt-lettered black calf spine label. Decent first of this softbound edition of this National Book Award winner -- but with a great content inscription and signature in black ballpoint that extends over nine pages and amounts to an Autograph Letter Signed -- opening on the inside front wrapper and closing (with delightful multi-color cat sketch) on inside rear wrapper. "Dear Miss Grubbins," Algren begins. "It's good of you to let me know you enjoyed Donohue's book [Conversations with Nelson Algren]. I didn't know what he was up to when he came around with a tape-recorder -- a magazine interview was all he had in mind. When he later succeeded in getting a contract for it from a publisher I wanted to revise it so as to appear more, heroic, cleverer and better-dressed, but he didn't permit me to dress it up -- which is why, apparently the book is being respected. In fact, I was surprised that you found a copy of that old novel in the public library -- the Chicago library banned it when it was published. None of the others, so far as I know, is available there, although they keep moving in paperback." He then recommends some recent fiction: "If you're interested in good contemporary novels, I'd suggest Terry Southern's Magic Christian (paperback), Bruce Jay Friedman's Stern (paperback), Wm. Styron's Lie Down in Darkness (paperback) Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (paper), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man (not in paper yet), James Leigh's What Can You Do? (Just published), Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (about to be published), Wm. Humphrey: The Ordways (about to be published). Lay off James Baldwin's Another Country. He's a great essayist and a perfectly lousy novelist. Terry Southern's Candy is humorous. A very very good novel, that nobody noticed and no one has read, a better novel than anything published here in years, was put out a few years ago by McGraw-Hill. It never made paperback: A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul." And he closes off simply "Thank you for writing -- Algren." This superb letter is Algren at his frank, opinionated best, starting with nice original content about the creation of H.E. F. Donohue's 1965 interview collection before moving on to a quick summation of recent fiction releases -- many of which have stood the test of time and a few that haven't. The large cat drawing consists of black crayon outline infilled with orange, yellow, green and other hues. BRUCCOLI A 4.5.a. .

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ALGREN, NELSON.

The Man With The Golden Arm.

First UK Edition; Post 8vo; pp. [iv], 343; bound in publishers original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket a little browned and chipped on edges, very good copy. London; Neville Spearman; 1959.

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