A Walk On the Wild Side

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahay, 1956. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Good. SIGNED PRESENTATION by the AUTHOR, 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with green lettering over blue-gray lettered boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped front flap with price $4.50) depicting the author in a shadowy alley, [vi] + [1] 3-346 pages. Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981)… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor bump at heel of spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling the front endpaper to noted bookman and journalist Van Allen Bradley: "For Van,/Whose thoughtful/criticism has afforded/me real footing,/from a little book/about Chicago to/the present,… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. Asked to name the best American authors of his day, Ernest Hemingway is said to have replied: 'Faulkner. (Pause.) Algren.' Breaking into the fight talk that was one of their tools, Hemingway said, 'Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around, and he will kill you if you're not awfully… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition. Signed by Algren, inscribed to former owners on front endpaper in the year of publication. Very Good+ with toning to top of cloth, "X" stamp on half-title (review copy?), hinge at page 24 a little free. Near Fine dust jacket is a little… Read more

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine copy in very good+ dust jacket with wear and short tape mended tears at top edge of rear panel. Signed by the author and signed on the rear dust jacket flap, beneath his name, by noted photographer Arthur Shay, who took the dust… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.50), lightly rubbed at the back panel. Quarter yellow paper with blue paper on the boards, faded at the edges. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, a few faint stains at the fore-edge, clean internally. Algren's… Read more

New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First edition first printing, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. A Walk on the Wild Side is a classic down-and-out novel, and the source for Algren's three rules of life: "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy (1956), 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 3-346 pp. Blue-green paper-covered boards quarter bound in yellow textured paper with lettering in gold and black on the front board, and lettering in black on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Bruccoli. A presentable… Read more

FARRAR Book. Hardcover. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ.

New York:: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy,, [1956].. First edition.. publisher’s boards in dust jacket.. Owner’s signature; very slight sunning to edges of boards; otherwise a nice copy in a price-clipped jacket with a few tiny chips and some rubbing and dust-soiling.. 8vo,.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. 8vo. [3], 346 pages. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Light toning to end papers.

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Printing, 1956. Nice burnt orange top-stain. Some fading to book. Toning to inside spine of dust jacket, 1/4" closed tear heel of spine, wear at extremities.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 346 pages; Light edgewear to dust jacket. Small gift inscription on front free endpaper. Little soiling to spine of book. .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue and yellow hardcover, Fading along edges of boards. Minor bumping and rubbing along edges and corners of boards. Brown stain on bottom edge of spine area. Pages are tight; clean/unmarked. 346 pages. Book had been stored in a… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Cloth and boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endsheet in a relatively early hand. Board edges a trace sunned, a few finger smudges to fore-edge, else a very nice copy in dust jacket (faint darkening to white portions of lower panel).

NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. Good in Good dust jacket; Pages toned, boards rubbed and toned with finger . pull tear and small piece missing from top of the spine. Jacket is chipped . and toned with a piece missing from the top of the spine. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Aqua paper quarterbound in yellow paper. Author's 6th… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First printing, so stated. Very tiny chip to crown of spine paper, all else fine in dust jacket with minor fade, small closed tear to rear panel, slight rub to crown, still a nice copy, not price clipped. First printing, so stated. [vi], 346p. Black-titled orange spine, the covers of blue… Read more

New York: Farrar,Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A square soild tight over-all clean carefully read copy. This copy has browning to pagedges,some edgewear,light bump tp top boardedge,some fading to top extremities. The 4.50 jacket has some rubbing wear,some foxing,stress wear at folds,some edgewear,chipping at top and base of spine. The basis for the movie… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. His sixth book, a novel, from the author of the National Award winning book "The Man With The Golden Arm." A very good plus copy with some soiling to the yellow cloth spine in an about near fine price clipped dust jacket that has some soiling to… Read more

Signed: Farrar, Straus And Cudahy. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the front free endpage ("For Roger Richards, from Nelson Algren, " dated March 1978, and accompanied by a drawing of a cat. Richards was a noted figure in… Read more

New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Some soil to upper edges, slight, barely detectable, dampstain to spine, else fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. A better than usual copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, foxed at the back panel. Quarter yellow paper with blue paper on the boards, faded at the edges. Square and firmly bound, faint foxing at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Algren's classic work of the down-and-out… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter mustard paper with blue-grey paper-covered boards, black & olive titles on front board & spine, [v], 346 pp. Spine cocked, edges of boards faded, slight wear to corners & spine ends, paper slightly browned (particularly at edges). DJ browned,… Read more

New York: Farrar Straus. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo, boards, d.w. New York: Farrar Straus, (1956). First edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Basis for a 1962 film starring Lawrence Harvey & Jane Fonda. Signed by Algren on the flyleaf.<br/><br/>

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. Yellow paper spine and green paper covered boards. Black and green lettering. Minor bumping and soiling, otherwise very good. Pictorial unpriceclipped dust jacket a little soiled, but no chips or tears, however dust jacket folds not in register as published. Powerful Algren work set in New Orleans.. First Printing.… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. [6], 346 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow cloth and blue boards. Near fine in about fine dust jacket with a little rubbing to head and tail of spine and some faint toning to margins. First edition. [6], 346 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bruccoli A6.1.a

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Canary yellow cloth and blue-gray boards. Hint of darkening to the spine, otherwise very good or better in very good dust jacket with a few spots and light soiling to the lower panel, and a snag at the crown of the lower joint and light fraying at crown. First edition of the… Read more

New York:: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy,, [1956].. First edition.. publisher's two-tined boards in dust jacket.. Ink ownership signature on front free endpaper; very slight use to cloth; a tight and sound copy in an unworn jacket with some very minor soiling to the rear panel.. 8vo,.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans. Ostensibly about "the natural toughness of women and men, in that order" (jacket), A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans - inscribed to the founder of the Lord John Press. Ostensibly about "the natural toughness of… Read more

Greenwich: Crest Books No. d157. 1957. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, a very good copy of this mass market paperback, a few reading creases, short tear at fore-edge of rear wrap, corners nice but for old small crease in lower left hand corner of rear wrap. James T. Farrell blurb on front wrap. Bruccoli… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 1956. Large Print Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near fine first printing. Binding square and tight. Pages clean. Tape residue to front and back end papers. Minor bumping to spine ends. Jacket not price clipped. Minor creasing and wear to spine ends and extremities. Small triangular… Read more

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Octavo, 365pp. A fine, crisp copy, with contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper. In a very near fine dust jacket, just a tinge rubbed, with a short closed tear on the rear panel.

Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990-02. Paperback. Good.

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Near Fine. Signed By Author on front endpaper. A fine copy of the first printing hardcover (stated) in a very near-tio-fine original jacket (jacket has very faint wear to rear panel; boards have usual faint fading from white areas of jacket. A superb copy.

New York: Farrar Strauss and Cudahy, 1956. First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Neville Spearman, 1958. 2nd imp.. Very Good. octavo. sl. chipped dust jacket 346pp.,

Penguin Publishing Group, 1977. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Pubs., NY, 1956; 1st edition, 1st printing; fine condition with a very good dust jacket: minor stains to jacket and light wear to jacket at corners; Nelson Algren; Modern First Editions

New York: Fawcett, 1956. Softcover. One of the better novel form the author of "The Man With The Golden Arm." A clean and tight near fine copy in wrappers.

Fine, unread, as new trade paperback. NOT a remainder. 6-onb

Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Book has shelfwear, edgwear, toning to pages, a touch of sunning to the covers, and soiling to covers and edges of text block; DJ has shelfwear, edgewear, toning, soiling,… Read more

London: Neville Spearman, 1957 unclipped DW minor rubbing to edges, small split to lower joint at tail, very tidy apart from some soiling to the blank white rear panel, book VG throughout, light bookseller pencil note to fep, 346pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Picador, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Type: Ex-Library Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Penguin Publishing Group, 1977. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

COLUMBUS, OHIO: INTEGRITY PRESS. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR: "KINDEST PERSONAL REGARDS TO MY FRIEND JOHN E. BIERLEY, 20 AUG., 1986." . VG. PAPERBACK. 5TH PRINTING. 1973.

Bantam, 1953. First Printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition.

New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Nice, tight copy that looks great on the shelf. The rear jacket panel has a slight moisture stain that can be felt rather than seen. Price reflects this flaw,

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.