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Author: Algren, Nelson
Title: Five first editions by Nelson Algren
Place Published: Various places
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Date Published: Various dates
Description:

5 volumes. (8vo), cloth and boards, dust jackets. First Editions. Includes:

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  The Man With the Golden Arm. Light wear and soiling to jacket, minor chips and a few tears to edges; very good.


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  Chicago: City on the Make. Light edge wear and rubbing to jacket, light wear to cloth; very good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1951.


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  A Walk on the Wild Side. Some wear to jacket with area of glue residue on back panel, portion of illegible stamp on front inner flap, a few minor closed tears; very good in like jacket. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956].


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  The Last Carousel. Light toning to jacket, light spotting to cloth; very good or better. New York: J. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.


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  America Eats (Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series). A bit of fading to jacket; else fine. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1992.

Five first editions from Chicago writer Nelson Algren. He is likely best known for The Man with the Golden Arm, a 1949 novel that won the first National Book Award, and was adapted as a 1955 film of the same name starring Frank Sinatra.

General light wear to bindings and jackets; all volumes very good or better.