The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America. This expansive comedy of American manners in the tradition of Twain's 'innocent abroad' is a major classic of twentieth-century American literature.
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The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America. This expansive comedy of American manners in the tradition of Twain's 'innocent abroad' is a major classic of twentieth-century American literature.
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Very Good. Facsimile of the original 1953 Viking hard cover edition-minor wear to dust jacket-minor staining to page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6; First Modern Library Edition, Toledano binding style 11, 12mo, inverse of dust jacket blank, Kent endpapers, 536 pages plus title list in rear; red cloth boards are clean and square, minor wear to ends of spine and corners; dust jacket is edge worn, especially along extremities, $2.45 price inside dust jacket, now in protective mylar cover.
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Very good+ book in a very good dust jacket. 536 pages. The Modern library of the world's best books.. First Modern Library Edition (No. 362). Bellow's 1953 novel. Winner of the National Book Award. Introduction by Lionel Trilling (included in the 1953 original but specially revised for this edition). Very good plus, a sound and tight copy with a touch of wear to cloth, in very good dustjacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and rubbing at edges and folds, but with all colors bright.
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Clean pages, tight binding, clot. Illustrated dust jacket over clo. Stated fourth printing with original dust jacket priced at $4.50Clean pages, tight binding, cloth boards and dust jacket show minor staining, Illustrated dust jacket over cloth boards.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING + LIKE NEW CONDITION + ORIGINAL HARDBACK FORMAT, PROTECTED BY A MYLAR COVER; COLLECTING BOOKS SINCE 1988, SELLING BOOKS SINCE 2008. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 608 p. Audience: General/trade.