A Walk On the Wild Side

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor bump at heel of spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling the front endpaper to noted bookman and journalist Van Allen Bradley: "For Van,/Whose thoughtful/criticism has afforded/me real footing,/from a little book/about Chicago to/the present,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. Asked to name the best American authors of his day, Ernest Hemingway is said to have replied: 'Faulkner. (Pause.) Algren.' Breaking into the fight talk that was one of their tools, Hemingway said, 'Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around, and he will kill you if you're not awfully… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy (1956), 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 3-346 pp. Blue-green paper-covered boards quarter bound in yellow textured paper with lettering in gold and black on the front board, and lettering in black on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Bruccoli. A presentable… Read more 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… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahay, 1956. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Good. SIGNED PRESENTATION by the AUTHOR, 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with green lettering over blue-gray lettered boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped front flap with price $4.50) depicting the author in a shadowy alley, [vi] + [1] 3-346 pages. Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981)… Read more about this item

Fine, unread, as new trade paperback. NOT a remainder. 6-onb

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition. Signed by Algren, inscribed to former owners on front endpaper in the year of publication. Very Good+ with toning to top of cloth, "X" stamp on half-title (review copy?), hinge at page 24 a little free. Near Fine dust jacket is a little… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Printing. By Nelson Algren, author of "The Man With the Golden Arm". Inscribed by Nelson Algren in the year of publication on the front flyleaf. First Printing stated on copyright page. Dustjacket has a very small expert repair to top of… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. Good in Good dust jacket; Pages toned, boards rubbed and toned with finger . pull tear and small piece missing from top of the spine. Jacket is chipped . and toned with a piece missing from the top of the spine. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Aqua paper quarterbound in yellow paper. Author's 6th… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First printing, so stated. Very tiny chip to crown of spine paper, all else fine in dust jacket with minor fade, small closed tear to rear panel, slight rub to crown, still a nice copy, not price clipped. First printing, so stated. [vi], 346p. Black-titled orange spine, the covers of blue… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Printing, 1956. Nice burnt orange top-stain. Some fading to book. Toning to inside spine of dust jacket, 1/4" closed tear heel of spine, wear at extremities.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. 8vo., 346pp. Solid Stated First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a hint of toning to page edges and no foxing. Spine ends stiff, cracked and fragile though no loss. Toning to board edges. Sharp unclipped dust-jacket, ($4.50), has some minor edge-wear.… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 346 pages; Light edgewear to dust jacket. Small gift inscription on front free endpaper. Little soiling to spine of book. .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, foxed at the back panel. Quarter yellow paper with blue paper on the boards, faded at the edges. Square and firmly bound, faint foxing at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Algren's classic work of the down-and-out… Read more about this item

London: Neville Spearman, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition, first printing. Octavo. 346pp. Red-orange cloth. A fine copy in near fine dust jacke with a short creased tear at the foot of the spine and some minor soiling on the rear panel, else quite fresh and bright. *Bruccoli* A6. 1.d.

NOONDAY PRESS. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans - inscribed to the founder of the Lord John Press. Ostensibly about "the natural toughness of… Read more about this item

London: Neville Spearman, 1958. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 346pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket lightly edgewear, with small chip at head of spine. Tight and handsome second printing of the 1957 English edition of this fiction that became basis for the 1962 same-named drama. On the front flyleaf, shortly… Read more about this item

Crest, 1962. paperback. Fine mass market paperback. Crest d496, sixth printing September 1962. Movie tie-in edition with cover scenes from the Laurence Harvey, Jane Fonda & Barbara Stanwyck film of 1962.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter mustard paper with blue-grey paper-covered boards, black & olive titles on front board & spine, [v], 346 pp. Spine cocked, edges of boards faded, slight wear to corners & spine ends, paper slightly browned (particularly at edges). DJ browned,… Read more about this item