The Man With the Golden Arm
- 343 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition, Malcolm Cowley's copy, with his ownership signature. 343 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth, stamped in green and red on spine. Spine sunned and soiled; edges lightly tanned; small areas of damp staining on front; spotting and soil to rear; topstain faded; no dust jacket. First edition, Malcolm Cowley's copy, with his ownership signature. 343 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Perhaps best known for the 1955 film adaptation starring Frank Sinatra, Algren's searing story of drug addiction was unsurprisingly controversial at publication, but nonetheless won the first ever National Book Award, and is now considered a classic of twentieth-century American literature.
Editor Malcolm Cowley's personal copy, with his ownership signature on the title page, and a mark at the top of page 21. He called Algren "a poet of the Chicago slums, and he might be Sandburg’s successor," praise that appeared on the jacket copy of the first edition, and saw in Algren's new type of naturalism a "defense of the individual
Editor Malcolm Cowley's personal copy, with his ownership signature on the title page, and a mark at the top of page 21. He called Algren "a poet of the Chicago slums, and he might be Sandburg’s successor," praise that appeared on the jacket copy of the first edition, and saw in Algren's new type of naturalism a "defense of the individual