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..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1965]. Paperback. 4to. Red cloth spine and stiff buff printed wrappers. (Ca. 254pp, rectos only). Near fine. Very faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only). Highly unusual bound galleys of Algren's writings about Ernest Hemingway -- and the only such pre-publication copy this bibliopole has..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1965]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 254pp. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear only. Handsome first edition of Algren's writings about Ernest Hemingway -- and enormously inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on front flyleaf..... More
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..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1951. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black and grey cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 92pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, boldly inscribed and signed by the author in green ink on front flyleaf: "Good wishes to / Jean Vinohuroff / from Nelson Algren." Seven..... More
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..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with red and green spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 343pp. Very good/very good. Inoffensive stain at upper left of front board; else book and binding tight and nice and text block fine; jacket (mildly edgeworn, mainly at spine head/tail) has..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with red and green spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 343pp. Very good/very good. Spine slightly age toned; jacket (mildly edgeworn, with a few edge chips) has been expertly, professionally mounted to heavy archival stock, thus sturdy. The very first National..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale green cloth with brown spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 286pp. Very good/very good. Faintest of offsetting to front endpaper and inner fleleaves from long-ago newsprint contact, else tight and text block near fine; jacket rather edgeworn and a bit scuffed and..... More
New York: Avon Publishing Co., 1948. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 191pp, (1p ad). Very good. Quite mild edgewear. First of this revised paperback edition, #185, "A Powerful and Dramatic Story of the Chicago Slums... Specially Revised by the Author for Avon Books." Fun cheesy cover art depicts a...... More
New York: Vanguard Press, [1935]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with green spine lettering, facsimile dust jacket (properly identified). 322pp. Very good/fine. Mildly edgeworn, with spine head/tail expertly, professionally restored; facsimile jacket pristine. A tight and nice first edition of Algren's first book, set in Texas during the Depression. Strange, intriguing..... More
London: Neville Spearman, [1958]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 346pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket lightly edgewear, with small chip at head of spine. Tight and handsome second printing of the 1957 English edition of this fiction that became basis for..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 346pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit age toned and scuffed, slightly edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips. A tight and nice first edition of this fiction and basis for the..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 346pp. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn (only). Quite tight and attractive second printing of this fiction that became basis for the 1962 same-named drama. On the front flyleaf, the author inscribes..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter tan cloth and burgundy paper over boards with red, blue and green lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 337pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn and a tad rubbed. Tight and nice first edition of these quirky travel essays, described on..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter tan cloth and burgundy paper over boards with red, blue and green lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 337pp. Near fine/very good. Mildly edgeworn and rubbed jacket. Handsome first edition of these offbeat travel pieces, which front panel touts as "A..... More