Nelson Algren Who Lost An American? SIGNED 1963 1st Ed.

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Book Description: The Macmillan Company, NY, 1963. Hard Cover. BookCondition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket Design By S.A.Summit, Inc. (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "Being a guide to the Seamier Sides of New York City, Inner London, Paris, Dublin, Barcelona, Seville, Almeria, Instanbul, Crete, Chicago, Illinois". This book is about Nelson Algren's grand tour, a mixture of fact and fiction, autobiography and fantasy, famous people and infamous fictional creations - but always Algren's dissenting opinions prevail. Nelson Algren was one of the most authentic writers of the 20th century. He wrote things as he saw and heard them. x, 340pp. Beige half-cloth, red paper boards, green, blue and red spine and front cover lettering, cream endpapers, light red top-stain, deckled fore-edge. Dust jacket price 5.95. [Bruccoli A 9.1.a] SIGNED BY AUTHOR to first blank page. Book has light soiling and slight toning to end papers. Fragile dust jacket has some slight rubbing to spine and extremities with light soiling to white back panel, but no tears or chips. T is a circa 2" mark w tape was removed at the base of the rear dust jacket. This dust jacket is difficult to find without major chips to spine tips. Signed by Author.