Nelson Algren's Chicago
by SHAY, Art
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 025201586X
- ISBN 13
- 9780252015861
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 122pp. Frontispiece, extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of the noted Chicago photographer's images of his friend and collaborator, famed novelist Nelson Algren (1909-81) -- black and white photos often portraying the seamy side of life in Chicago, an aspect often depicted in Algren's fiction. Not only has Shay (1922-2018) signed the title page in blue ballpoint, but this special copy bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a heavy stock 6" X 4" picture postcard (picturing "Danse et Magie" French theatre poster). Neither addressed nor mailed, the message/address side bears an Autograph Note Signed from Algren in his huge script and usual later life thick green marker: Dear Carol, / I hope the season / brings every happiness / to you and yours / Nelson / Algren," and at lower left he sketches the back side of a seated cat in green, yellow and blue marker. (Carol Phillips, 1922-2016, created the Clinique skin care cosmetics line and was a top Estee Lauder figure.) A lovely and most unusual copy.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49296
- Title
- Nelson Algren's Chicago
- Author
- SHAY, Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 025201586X
- ISBN 13
- 9780252015861
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Photography;
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