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Algren, Nelson.
APG 003.5 (2004)
Author Price Guide. (Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2004).
Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch;
a list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date
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[Book #22734]
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(Algren, Nelson), by H. E. F. Donohue.
CONVERSATIONS WITH NELSON ALGREN.
New York: Hill and Wang, (1964). First edition. "Nelson Algren reveals himself -- without reservations" (from the dust jacket flap). Fine in very good dust jacket with small chips to ends of spine, which is slightly tanned, closed tear to top edge front panel, and mild rubbing.
[Book #53582]
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Algren, Nelson.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH JOHN CIARDI.
1954-1963. Six letters and a post card to the poet John Ciardi, all typed and hand-signed "Nelson." Ciardi (1916-1986), a long-time friend of Algren's, was director of the Bread Loaf Conference. Includes a two-page letter with Algren's return address as "Daddy-o Patio / Gary, Ind.," dated "Jan. 28" (no year) and with original envelope showing Algren's real return address; a two-page letter and 2 one-page letters dated in 1956 speaking to Algren's opinion of the lopsided relationship between producer and writer and referring to Otto (Otto Preminger, who directed "Man with Golden Arm"), the subverting of the writer, a woman who was suing Otto, and his thoughts on doing "Will Success Spoil Rock Schlopker" (again complaining about producer’s and agents); a 1959 letter sending lyrics from the musical, "The House of the Hundred Grassfires," which was adapted from A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE; a 1-page letter thanking Ciardi for information on Breadloaf (in 1963), saying he'll be there for two weeks in August for a fee of $400 plus $100 for travel to do 3 talks, 2 or 3 workshops and "read half a dozen of mss and talk to them as writ 'em. Okay? Consider me framed." One letter's paper is aged and has a chip, otherwise the correspondence is altogether very good or better. SIX LETTERS & A POSTCARD.
[Book #53851]
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[Algren, Nelson].
GALENA GUIDE.
Galena, IL: The City of Galena, 1937. First edition. Considered his first book or contribution. In the "American Guide Series," a Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project that funded writers during the Depression. Blue paperwraps featuring a silhouette of Illinois; printed on front only in dark blue and gilt. Bit of excess glue inside front cover otherwise fine. WPA GUIDE.
[Book #54241]
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Algren, Nelson.
THE LAST CAROUSEL.
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1973). First edition of this collection of stories. INSCRIBED by Algren (covering the full front endpaper), "with best wishes to Jeen" followed by one of his signature cat drawings, signed and dated June 1978, and colored with light blue and yellow streaks and whirls. Two small cigarette burns to back cover, otherwise bright and fine in near fine dustwrapper with only light rubbing to spine ends and corners.
[Book #53734]
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Algren, Nelson.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co. 1949. First edition. A fine, bright copy, lacking dust jacket.
[Book #51740]
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Algren, Nelson.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co. 1949. First edition. Winner of the first National Book Award and made into the movie that resurrected Frank Sinatra's career. "Unrevised proofs" in tall, plain blue wraps with light-blue label printed in black. Measures 6 7/8 x 11 3/4"; last page number is "122" but pagination is double in that the pages are numbered "1A," "1B," and so on. A RARE ITEM, we know of only one other copy, which is in a university's Rare Books Library. A few minor scuffs and creases, otherwise near fine. Housed in a custom clamshell case.
[Book #52513]
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Algren, Nelson.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition. SIGNED BY ALGREN on publisher's tipped-in page. Winner of the first National Book Award and made into the movie that resurrected Frank Sinatra's career. Spine lightly soiled otherwise near fine. In about very good, price-clipped dust jacket with mild age toning, shallow chipping, light soiling and rubbing, and scratches and few tiny holes along rear spine fold. WINNER OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BOOK AWARD.
[Book #54066]
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Algren, Nelson.
NEVER COME MORNING.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1942). First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALGREN, "For Jimmy Cannon, Who knows it's from the depths the stars shine clearest, God bless his Merry Christmas. Nelson Algren, '57." Journalist Jimmy Cannon (1909-1973) was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the sport. Bottom front corner lightly bumped, tips a little rubbed, light stains to margins of few pages, otherwise very good in good, spine-toned dust jacket with chipping (mostly to corners) and 2-inch tear to top edge front panel.
[Book #54153]
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(Algren, Nelson).
"THE PESETA WITH THE HOLE IN THE MIDDLE," PARTS II & II: In The Kenyon Review, Autumn 1961 & Winter 1962.
Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1961 & 1962. First edition. Later collected WHO LOST AN AMERICAN? (NY: Macmillan, 1963) as "Seville: The Peseta with the Hole in the Middle." Faint, unobtrusive stamps of the IBM Research Library on front covers of both volumes; first volume lightly soiled, otherwise both are very good to near fine in pictorial paperwraps.
[Book #53735]
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Algren, Nelson.
SOMEBODY IN BOOTS.
New York: Vanguard Press, (1935). First edition of the author's first book. Based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. The title refers to someone with authority--namely bosses and police; poor folk and the powerless just wore shoes or went barefoot. Minor binding-glue bleed-through near inner hinges (which is common) otherwise a very good or better, nice clean copy with only the barest wear to the covers and with the brown top stain still very good. Lacking the original dust jacket but offered in a facsimile one. HIS FIRST BOOK.
[Book #53567]
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Algren, Nelson.
WHO LOST AN AMERICAN?
New York: Macmillan Co. (1963). First edition. SIGNED by Algren. Essays on travels, Playboy, etc. Near fine with cloth spine and paper baords showing a little rubbing on tips; in very good dust jacket with some edgewear and tiny chipping on corners and spine ends.
[Book #52683]
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Algren, Nelson.
WHO LOST AN AMERICAN?.
New York: Macmillan Company, (1963). First edition. His travel writings, of a sort -- covering trips to England, Seville, Crete, Istanbul, Paris, et al. INSCRIBED to Richard Elman, "Best wishes/ To Dick Elman/ from/ Nelson Algren/ May 16 1963." Elman and Gene McGarr's interview, "A Converation with Nelson Algren," ran on listener-supported New York radio station WBAI on May 23, 1963. Near fine with rear endpaper lightly foxed. In very good or better dust jacket with spine lettering toned, few rubs and small tears, and tears to top and bottom of rear flap fold internally repaired with tape.
[Book #53974]
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