The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren [FIRST EDITION] 1956 / 2nd State • Doubleday

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

FIRST EDITION • SECOND STATE [1956] DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY

Winner of the first ever National Book Award

Second state with National Book Award blurb on jacket.

Custom restored ex-library copy with all library materials professionally removed. 

Book is in good condition with flaws. 

Dust jacket is in beautiful shape; clean, vibrant and fully in tact.  A few nicked edges.  National Book Award medal is half torn. 

Original jacket price of $3.95 in tact on front panel. Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself reads beautifully.  Clean, tightly bound boards with *tape-ghosting marks to edges of cloth,.

Pages have tanning.  Stamp to upper text block. 

Stains on title pages / copyright pages.  Otherwise, reads beautifully. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Man with the Golden Arm is Nelson Algren's most powerful and enduring work.

A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he's not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction.

With consummate skill and a finely-tuned ear for the authentic dialogue of the backstreets, Algren lays bare the tragedy and humour of Frankie's world.Features the first UK publication of a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut and an afterword by Studs Terkel.