THE NEON WILDERNESS
by Algren, Nelson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. hard cover. Good/Fair. Inscribed by author. Garden City, NY:Doubleday and Co., Inc. 1947. 1st edition, stated. 286pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Green boards sunfaded and soiled along edges, with wear along edges, spine ends and edge points gently bumped. Page edges soiled. Internally, end-pages slightly age-toned with an inscribtion by and signed by the Author, to the 1st free end-page. Otherwise pages clean, the binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is still in one piece, but soiled and shelfworn, with a piece of the lower outside edge of front cover missing, and other tears to edges and folds. It is not price clipped. *Collection of short stories.
Synopsis
Recipient of the first National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm and lauded by Hemingway as “one of the two best authors in America,” NELSON ALGREN (1909-1981) remains one of our most defiant and enduring novelists. His body of work includes five major novels, two short fiction collections, a book-length poem, and several collections of reportage—one of the most substantial of any American writer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26171
- Title
- THE NEON WILDERNESS
- Author
- Algren, Nelson
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; SHORT STORIES
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Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Inscribed
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- 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...
- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Price Clipped
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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