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Saul Bellow. Dangling Man. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Bellow on the title page. 12mo. volume in light gray cloth binding. Condition: binding soiled and worn; corners slightly bumped; new front and rear endpapers; 1" tear to fore-edge of pp. 9/10; else good condition. 191 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man. Vanguard Press, New York New York, 1944.
Price: US$560.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Authors first book in facsimile DJ. Signed by author ( first name only ) on half title page. Book has bumping to head and tail of the spine and some generalized age toning of the boards as well as the page block. There is also some slight staining to the front & back boards. States "Copyright 1944, The Vanguard Press Inc " on the copyright page with NO statement of other printings, making it a True 1st Printing.
Seller: Herrick Books, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. DANGLING MAN. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1944.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inscribed and SIGNED "Saul" on the ffep. 191 pages in fairly good condition; edges yellowed and several pages stained. Endpapers yellowed and stained. Grey cloth with brown titles and illustration. Spine and edges yellowed. Black stain along the bottom edge of the lower cover. Corners bumped and a little frayed. No dust jacket. GOOD-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1944.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket that shows some chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. "One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war" (Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. Dangling Man, True First Edition, SIGNED. Vanguard Press, 1944.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vanguard Press, 1944. The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow. Signed by Bellow on a bookplate affixed to dedication page. CONDITION: Very Good. Minimal wear. DJ in good condition with chipping to top of spine. Otherwise, DJ fully intact.
Seller: JayLin Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1944.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some wear and toning to the spine. "One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war" (Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1944.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional example. "One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war" (Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
BELLOW, Saul. Dangling Man (Signed). New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. A charming copy of Bellow's first book, neatly SIGNED to title page. Olive boards with red-stamped design; some discoloration to cloth and rounding to corners; close to near fine. In unclipped illustrated jacket, with modest edge-wear and minor crease to rear corner, thus close to near fine. Housed in quarter-leather slipcase, with pull-tab chemise.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1944.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Saul Bellow on a laid in signature. The ORIGINAL dustjacket has some wear to the spine and edges. This First Issue dustjacket has the printed price present on the front flap. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy with the original dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1944.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Matthew and Adrienne greetings and blessings (on your wedding) Saul Bellow." Fine in a near fine price-clippedÂdust jacket with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. "One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war" (Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1944.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Saul Bellow on the front endpaper. A beautiful copy. This First Issue dustjacket has the $2.50 printed price present on the front flap with minor wear to the edges. The ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or pieces missing. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Saul Bellow First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
SAUL BELLOW SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Dangling Man. Vanguard Press NYC, 1944.
Price: US$4778.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a gorgeous SIGNED first edition of the author's first book. It has been bound in navy blue goatskin leather, and is secure in a suede lined slipcase. The author has simply signed this without dedication on the title page in what looks like fountain pen ink - which has faded a bit. This is not just beautifully bound; it is thoroughly well bound. The hand marbled endpapers enhance the pleasure of this book. Whoever bound this has followed the spine titling design of the original issue.
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
BELLOW, Saul.. Dangling Man.. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944, 1944.
Price: US$4843.52 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of the author's first book, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper, "To Kurt & Carla Wolff, affectionately, Saul Bellow". One of the Wolffs has added "[Chicago Ap 15, 44]" beneath Bellow's inscription and "Kurt & Karla Wolff, Chicago, Mr. 27, 1944 (H. Bookstore)" above. This is an excellent association, from Bellow to his friend and fellow writer, the influential sociologist Kurt Wolff (1912-2003). They met in Chicago: Bellow was raised there, and Wolff "had fallen in love with the region, with the people and with the situation" (quoted in Stehr) while a research fellow at the Social Science Research Council in the early 1940s. Bellow wrote this book, about a young Chicago man waiting to be drafted, during his service with the merchant marine during the Second World War. Both Bellow and Wolff were significantly engaged in one another's disciplines: Bellow was a writer educated in sociology, and Wolff a sociologist whose literary experiments Bellow encouraged. Bellow was a Canadian-born Lithuanian-Jew who had graduated from Northwestern University with an honours in anthropology and sociology, the study of which had a marked influence on his literary style. Wolff was a Jewish German-born sociologist forced out of Germany by rising Naziism, who recounted that "after a relatively short time in America I began to write literature, in which the most important help I received was from Saul Bellow, whom I got to know in Chicago in 1943". Wolff co-founded a short-lived poetic journal titled Experiment around this time, and it was then that his central sociological ideas of surrender and catch "gave rise to a synthesis between sociology and poetry". He stated that "my method of imagination is neither sociological nor poetic, but rather spontaneously phenomenological, if I may call it that. That means, the attempt to capture something as exactly as possible, which is thus, as you see, connected to the art of poetry as much as to the appearance of nature, but isn't one of the other: it's a third method". Both Wolff and Bellow shared this dedication to a "third method": in 1962 Bellow returned to Chicago as a professor on the Committee on Social Thought, the goal of which was to develop multidisciplinary approaches to learning. He taught on the committee for more than 30 years. This is a significant association from the beginning of an intellectually fertile relationship. Nico Stehr, "A Conversation with Kurt H. Wolff", Gary Backhaus & George Psathas (eds.), The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's Existential Turn, 2007. Octavo. Original light green cloth, spine lettered in brown, small design of man with arm outstretched on front cover in brown, top edge brown. With dust jacket. Spine a touch sunned and cocked, spine ends just bumped, cloth and edges lightly soiled, edges of endpapers lightly toned. A very good copy indeed, internally clean, in like jacket, edges toned, shallow chips to head of spine and corners, a little rubbing to front panel, a few short closed tears to folds and one across spine, head of front panel and flaps a touch creased, edges nicked, unclipped, a clean example.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom