Conversations Nelson Algren: First Edition (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Part I: From the grandfathers, Part II: Algren vs. Hollywood, Part III: Innocent abroad; Part IV: Controversies; Part V: reprise at 55. 333 pages. Turquoise cloth over boards, text block Near Fine; faded and soiled spine, name inked on first page.; 5 3/34 x 8 1/4.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. DUST JACKET. First Edition. First Edition. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Dust jacket has some minor tears. Binding is tight/good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Browning and edge wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edge wear to jacket.

hardcover. First Edition. teal-green cloth w/ lettering in gilt on spine; top edge teal; 333 pgs; dust jacket has b&w cover photo of Algren by Stephen Deutch; $6.50 on front flap, author photo by Bettye Lane on rear. jacket design by Saul Lambert. very good copy in good dust jacket; slight fade to spine color but gilt bright; dj rubbed at corners w/ 1/4" loss at head of spine, into author's name; spine badly sun-toned w/ red lettering (title) faded away; back cover age-toned but Algren photo on front nice.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xii+333 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In these frank and often devastating conversations Nelson Algren reveals himself with all the gruff humor, deflating insight, honesty, and critical brilliance that marked his career. Prodded by H. E. F. Donohue, Algren discusses everything from his childhood to his compulsion to write to his relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. The result is a masterful portrait of a rebel and a major American writer. Condition: Light stains on front cover, spine extremities gently rubbed. Jacket 1/4" chips at spine head, corners chipped, spine sunned, some small edge tears. "1st Literary Luncheon at the Baker Chicago 21, 1964. Studs Terkel Master of Ceremonies" tipped in at front end paper else a very good copy in a good to very good jacket.…

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover. (interviews).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.50), generally toned and soiled, bumped and rubbed. Green cloth with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green topstain, clean internally. A chronological autobiography of Algren drawn through conversations with Donohue.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($6.50 price intact). Published by Hill and Wang, 1964. Octavo. Hardcover. Teal topstain. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and small tears.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Former owner's writing on both endpapers. Water stain on top outside edges of pages. Some writing in margins. Dustwrapper slightly brown and shelf rubbed. Minor tears on edges of dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good. Hardcover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, spine lightly faded, paper clip shadow on first couple of pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A very well preserved copy, unmarked and unclipped. In a Brodart dj cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A very well preserved copy, unmarked and unclipped. In a Brodart dj cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A very well preserved copy, unmarked and unclipped. In a Brodart dj cover.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 333. Notes. A VG tight copy. A series of interviews, really, abut Algren's life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover.8Vo.333 pages.very good copy in very good dust jacket.original price present.

Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition Thus. 284 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Algren, Nelson 1st. ed. v.g. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Some minor marking to edges. D/w spine sunned; lightly rubbed at extremities, with some minor shelfwear; some old selotape residue to top and bottom of spine and corners. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ has signs of edge wear with light scuffing and smudging. Boards have scuffing and bumping. Binding is sound with light seperation of the textblock and spine. Front free page has half that's been cut out. Endpages are lightly scuffed. Page edges are lightly smudged and scuffed. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Inscribed by "Shag Donohue". Price clipped jacket. Jacket slightly worn with two 1" tears.

Hardcover. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 333pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with several neat archival mends on verso. Attractive and tight first edition of this collection of interviews with the popular Chicago novelist -- and an intriguing association copy, for the author boldly inscribes and signs in blue ballpoint on front flyleaf "For Ogden Nash -- / With regards -- / HEF Donohue / 10/15/64." Nash (1902-71) was the American poet who authored a massive quantity of the most humorous verse to grace the English language. BRUCCOLI A 10.…

xii, 333 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Two light offset shadows from tape (from an old jacket protector) on each of the free endpapers; slightest of bumping; in a jacket with some light use and edgewear. Inscribed by Nelson Algren on the front free endpaper, with his characteristic drawing of a cat, in two colors.…

dj. First edition. First printing of this series of interviews with National Book Award-winning author Nelson Algren - with postcard from Algren to his friend, publisher William Targ. Nelson Algren was fascinated by the underbelly of society, a theme he returned to frequently in his works. In this revealing interviews, H. E. F. Donohue draws out Algren's personal experiences with success and the temptations that came with it. This copy includes a postcard from Algren to prominent publisher William Targ. Algren and Targ corresponded frequently, and Algren's archives at Ohio State and the Newberry Library contain numerous letters between the two. 8'' x 5.5''. Original teal cloth boards. Original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, designed by Saul Lambert. Green topstain. xii, 334 pages. With postcard from Algren to Bill Targ, postmarked 1965, loosely laid in. Jacket with mild rubbing and a touch of edgewear, spine lightly sunned. Binding spine ends with a hint of bumping. Clean and tight. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 333pp. Near fine/good plus. One front board corner bumped; large chip to jacket rear panel and couple other smaller ones. Attractive, quite tight first edition of this collection of interviews with the popular Chicago novelist. Interestingly, this was Donohue's personal copy, with amusing long signed inscription and directions in black ink on front flyleaf: "Shag's lending copy: / Please return to him -- / HEF / 10003 / Sometime in 1980" -- and further down: "Now hear this: / Burt's lending copy. / Please return to him. / Shag Donohue / 4/6/83 / 11:45 p.m. / Return to Himself." Most unusual copy. BRUCCOLI A 10.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 333pp. Good plus/good plus. Inoffensive irregular dampstain to bottom couple inches of binding and jacket, though text block largely untouched; jacket faintly edgeworn and rubbed, with spine a bit darkened. Decent first edition of this collection of interviews with the popular Chicago novelist. On the front flyleaf, both interviewer and subject sign in black fineline. Donohue inscribes it "For Burt -- / -- Shag / HEF Donohue / @ Strand Books / NYC / 8/25/75," and beneath this much bolder Algren also signs, dating it "NYC Oct. 75" and adding his trademark seated cat sketch. Copies of this title signed by Donohue are occasionally seen and copies signed by Algren once in a great while, but this is the first example we have encountered signed by both. Despite condition, a fairly attractive example and most unusual. BRUCCOLI A 10. …

Hardcover. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 333pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn. Superb, tight first edition of this collection of interviews with the popular Chicago novelist. On the front flyleaf, the subject inscribes and signs large and bold in black marker: "For / Gene and Phil / from / Nelson Algren / 5 Nov. 1975," and he sketches his trademark back side of a seated cat. Philip L. Gerber (1923-2005) -- "Gene" was his wife Eugenia -- was a noted English professor at the State University of New York at Brockport and author of several academic titles, including studies of Theodore Dreiser and Willa Cather in the popular "Twayne's United States Authors Series." Copies of this title signed by interviewer Donohue are occasionally seen, but copies signed by the subject are scarce. BRUCCOLI A 10.…