A Walk on the Wild Side
by ALGREN, Nelson
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
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 and signs boldly in black ink: "For Larry Scheer / with good wishes for the / best of everything in 1958 / from / Nelson Algren." In addition, the rear jacket flap is inscribed and signed in black ink by the noted Chicago photographer whose image of Algren graces the jacket's front panel: "The world's most / neighborly photographer -- / Art Shay." Shay (1922-2018) was a close friend of Algren's and they collaborated on a number of projects; in 1988 Shay's many Algren images resulted in the book "Nelson Algren's Chicago." And as if this isn't enough, this special copy bears a choice autograph addition from the film version: Tipped facing the half-title page is a heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed boldly by actor Ken Lynch, who dates it 21 June 1989 at upper right. Lynch (1910-90) plays Frank Bonito in the film. BRUCCOLI A.6.1.b.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49293
- Title
- A Walk on the Wild Side
- Author
- ALGREN, Nelson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
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About the Seller
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Galena, Illinois
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...