Algren (Nelson) The Man with the Golden Arm
£75
London, Neville Spearman, 1959.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
The first UK edition of this well-known work in part about morphine addiction, the inspiration for the 1955 film starring Frank Sinatra.
In stock
A very good copy; jacket a little worn at extremities, else very good.
Jacket artwork by Fort.
Related products
American Literature
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced $11.00.
The first edition of the first book in the 'Border trilogy' by the recently deceased Cormac McCarthy, a best-selling work that was adapted into a 2000 film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
American Literature
Paris, The Olympia Press, 1959.
First edition, first issue with original price of "Francs 1.500" on the back wrapper. 8vo. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers.
The first edition of Beat Generation Burroughs' most famous work, banned in the UK and USA at the time.
American Literature
London, Heinemann, 1931.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
The first UK edition of this tale of Polish immigrant workers in New England which weaves a complex social history of the period, commencing with the stock market crash of 1929. Ferber is best known today perhaps as the author of Show Boat and Giant.
American Literature
...With the author's final revisions and a preface by Malcolm Cowley
London, The Grey Walls Press, 1953.
First UK edition of the revised text. 8vo. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An important, and attractive, edition of Fitzgerald's famous, tragic romance; the revised text adopts a more linear chronology of the narrative (cf. Bruccoli A14.4).
American Literature
London, Cape, 1932.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Hemingway's famous work on the art of bull-fighting, illustrated with over eighty illustrations from photographs and paintings.