Conversations with Nelson Algren
by DONOHUE, H.E.F
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hill and Wang, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 333pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn. Superb, tight first edition of this collection of interviews with the popular Chicago novelist. On the front flyleaf, the subject inscribes and signs large and bold in black marker: "For / Gene and Phil / from / Nelson Algren / 5 Nov. 1975," and he sketches his trademark back side of a seated cat. Philip L. Gerber (1923-2005) -- "Gene" was his wife Eugenia -- 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." Copies of this title signed by interviewer Donohue are occasionally seen, but copies signed by the subject are scarce. BRUCCOLI A 10.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49308
- Title
- Conversations with Nelson Algren
- Author
- DONOHUE, H.E.F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Biography;
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