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The Man with the Golden Arm
by Algren, Nelson
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- first
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. 343 pp. The story of Frankie Machine, the dealer at Schwiefka's gambling joint, the man with the golden arm, the man who dealt the cards. Bound in beige cloth, spine lettered and decorated in red and green, top edge stained green, faint damp stain to bottom edge of upper board and foot, some foxing to spine and board edges, paper clip mark to first two leaves, erasure mark to front free endpaper in unclipped, chipped, edge worn dust jacket with a couple of small closed edge tears. A good copy.
Synopsis
Nelson Algren was an American writer. He wrote his first story in 1933 while he was in Texas working at a gas station. Before returning home one evening, he was caught stealing a typewriter from an abandoned classroom. For this, he spent nearly five months behind bars. The incident made a deep impression on him. It enhanced his identification with outsiders, has-beens, and the general failures that later populated his fictional world. His novel, The Man With The Golden Arm won the National Book Award in 1950. The novel tells the story of Frankie Machine, an addict who gets clean while in prison. This complex tale takes place in mid-century Chicago and explores the circumstances that led to Frankie’s addiction as well as the stories of the community of swindlers, tenement housing dwellers, and drunks that he takes up with. As his life spirals downward, Frankie does not believe that he is worth saving. One of Algren’s accomplishments is that he has the reader cheering for Frankie, and his friends as well. A relentless evocation of life in the inner-city, its victims and survivors.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022535
- Title
- The Man with the Golden Arm
- Author
- Algren, Nelson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- First Edition 1st Dust Jacket Frankie MacHine Gambling
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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