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Saul Bellow. The Adventures of Augie March. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1953). Thick 8vo. Later issue SIGNED by Bellow. Lacking d.j. Pamphlet from a Saul Bellow lecture laid in. Offsetting to copyright and dedication pages from signature on title page. Darkening to edges of lightly toned textblock with faintest patch of soiling and scratching to top edge near spine end. Marking/wear to textblock bottom corner. Faint series of spots to front pastedown. Wear and darkening to edges of gently rubbed cloth covered boards with wear, light rubbing, and slight bumping to spine ends and forecorners. Wear and bumping resulted in fraying starting to from and bottom rear forecorners. Slight ripple to spine appears to be a slight production error. VG/--.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March.. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Saul Bellow. In fine condition. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner, calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March.. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the John Steinbeck ad on the rear flap and no reviews. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner, calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March.. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ann Englander whom I protected from the angry wolves Saul Bellow." Fine in a near fine price-clipped first-issue dust jacket with the John Steinbeck ad on the rear flap and no reviews. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. An exceptional example. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner, calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954. Both Time Magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March.. The Viking Press, New York, 1953.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Raymita Chaffee with best wishes Saul Bellow Breadloaf VT, 1954." The recipient was a student of Bellowâs at Breadloaf. Fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket, Jacket design by Robert Hallock. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Contemporary inscriptions in this title are uncommon. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner, calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954 and was listed on Modern Library's 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.