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The Man With the Golden Arm
by Algren, Nelson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Clean pages, tight binding, toni/illustrated dust jacket over gra
- Seller
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Slingerlands, New York, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean pages, tight binding, toni/illustrated dust jacket over gra. The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren. First edition published in 1949 by Doubleday. Colophon and [1] on copyright page.Clean pages, tight binding, toning to front cloth board, dust jacket heavily tattered, illustrated dust jacket over gray cloth boards
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
- HGG Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- goldenarm
- Title
- The Man With the Golden Arm
- Author
- Algren, Nelson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Clean pages, tight binding, toni
- Jacket Condition
- illustrated dust jacket over gra
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
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About the Seller
HGG Books
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Slingerlands, New York
About HGG Books
Antiquarian and collectible bookseller specializing in illustrated and art books. We handle both older and modern books, but all are considered to have artistic value.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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