THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949. First edition. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this tale of a WWII veteran struggling with a morphine addiction – winner of the 1950 National Book Award for Fiction. The 1955 film adaptation, starring Frank Sinatra and depicting drug use, pushed the limits of the Motion Picture Production Code, which refused to grant it a Code seal. Nevertheless, it was nominated for three Academy Awards, including a Best Actor nod for Sinatra, his only in that category. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original light brown cloth boards. Original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Karov. Green topstain, fore-edge machine deckle. 344 pages. Jacket with mild chipping to spine ends, a bit of wear to spine; pinprick hole to front joint, tiny closed tear to spine. Binding with a hint of bumping to spine ends. Bright.