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.

Calhoun. Roman eines Verbrechens. Hrsg. u. übersetzt von Carl Weissner. (Mit einem Vorwort von Wolf Wondratschek.).

(Frankfurt a. M.), Zweitausendeins, (1981). XI, 376 S., 1 Frontispiz (Foto von Roswitha Hecke mit Algren u. Wondratscheck). (= Nelson Algren, Werke). 20,5 cm. Rotes OKunst-Ldr. mit Farbkopfschnitt u. Lesebändchen. In Fadenheftung.
¶ [The Devil's Stocking, dt.). - Erste deutsche Ausgabe, die dem Originalmanuskript in der Fassung vom Oktober 1980 folgt, zugleich opus ultimum des Autors. - Nelson Algren (1909-1981), amerikanischer Schriftsteller, zeitweilig mit Simone de Beauvoir liiert (siehe Eine transatlantische Liebe - Briefe an Nelson Algren 1947-1964). - Carl Weissner (1940-2012), Schriftsteller u. Übersetzer, wurde vor allem durch seine Übertragungen von Charles Bukowski bekannt, mit dem er befreundet war u. den er in Deutschland etablierte. - Wolf Wondratschek, geb. 1943, gilt als "Deutschlands letzter lebender Rockpoet, Dichter, Autor und Journalist" (Wolf Reiser, im Cicero vom 14. August 2013). - Gutes Exemplar

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Algren, Nelson.

"Down with Cops" in Saturday Evening Post (October 23, 1965).

0 pp. First edition. Moderate wear (circle rub on the front cover).

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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).

L'homme aux bras d'or. Traduit de l'américain par Boris Vian.

Paris, Gallimard, Collection " Du Monde Entier ", 1956. In-8, broché, 356 pp. Edition originale de la traduction française exemplaire du Service de presse (il n'a été tiré de cet ouvrage que 41 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin pur fil Lafuma). Nelson Algren, nom de plume de Nelson Ahlgren Abraham est le premier écrivain à obtenir le National Book Award en 1950 avec le roman L'Homme au bras d'or (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1949).

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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.

Mai venga il mattino.

Traduzione di Luisa Opiperi Linari. Presentazione di Kurt Vonnegut Junior. Roma, 1991, Edizioni e/o Coll. Ovest. cm.14x21, pp.283, brossura con bandellette e cop

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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

New York, Doubleday, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Issue. 8vo. 343pp. beige cloth stamped green & red to the spine, green endpapers. A very good copy showing some light use, in a moderately worn supplied dustwrapper priced at $3.00 without mention of the National Book Award & free of reviews. A very personable inscription to friends in black fountain pen on the verso of the front fly leaf: "For Joyce and Ed, / the sort of people / to believe us / with good wishes / and pleasant / recollections / from / Nelson". Algren's highly regarded finest work and of the first realistic stories of the life of a heroin addict. NBA Winner, & basis to the Frank Sinatra & Kim Novak starring 1955 United Artists / Preminger movie. "You mean just stop? Cold turkey? You don't understand! The pain. " - Frankie Machine. A worthy item. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 33331

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