The Neon Wilderness

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1948. Early Doubleday printing. Hardcover. Good +. SIGNED. 286pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Pale green cloth over boards. Front board soiled (rear board lightly so). Moderately rubbed and bumped along the edges of the boards and spine. Previous owner's bookplate and name and date (March 1950) in dark pencil on the front free endpaper. A handful of pages with brief markings in pencil. No dust jacket. A collection of short stories set in Chicago, and a study of life in urban America. The author's first collection of short stories. With the following stories: "The Neon Wilderness," "Somebody in Boots," "Never Come Morning." Inscribed by Nelson Algren on the front free endpaper: "For____ / with best / regards / from / Nelson Algren." Algren (1909-1981) won the 1950 National Book Award for The Man With the Golden Arm.