Chicago: City on the Make

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Fair dj. 1951. Later Printing. Hardcover. [moderately shelfworn book, mild age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket is separated at the rear hinge (held together by new mylar cover), and shows some wear at the corners, with a shallow chip at the top of the front panel, 1/2" of paper loss at the top of the spine and about 1" at the lower spine extending just a bit into the front panel]. Algren's "pulsating history of the growth of a great metropolis [is] no guidebook, no almanac of geographical data or statistical reportage. It is instead a giant panoramic painting of a tumultuous city in all its vivid colors, a prose picture by an artist-writer forever enamored with his favorite model." .