The Man With the Golden Arm

by Algren, Nelson

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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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with red and green spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 343pp. Very good/very good. Spine slightly age toned; jacket (mildly edgeworn, with a few edge chips) has been expertly, professionally mounted to heavy archival stock, thus sturdy. The very first National Book Award given went to the Chicago novelist's best-known… Read more about this item
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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
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Greenwich, CT: Crest Book, 1964. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 365pp, (3pp ads). Good. Edgeworn and text block age toned, with front wrapper and some edges professionally, archivally strengthened. Housed in custom lavender cloth (to match front wrapper) clamshell case with with gilt-lettered black calf spine label. Decent first of this softbound edition of this National Book Award winner… Read more about this item
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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… Read more about this item
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Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949. First edition. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this tale of a WWII veteran struggling with a morphine addiction - winner of the 1950 National Book Award for Fiction. The 1955 film adaptation, starring Frank Sinatra and depicting drug use, pushed the limits of the… Read more about this item
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New York: Seven Stories Press, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Later Printing. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and lightly bumped at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Algren's best-known work, the winner of the 1950 National Book Award and adapted into the 1955 film starring Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. A sadly fitting book for the current day… Read more about this item
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London: Neville Spearman, 1959. A first edition, first printing published by Neville Spearman in 1959. A very good book without inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some light wear to the edges and to the spine tips. The first winner of the National Book Award, this novel was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra. … Read more about this item
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