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1953 · rif. 1386456 — New York NY: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition First Printing First State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo 536 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition contained in a custom case with gilted lettering on the outside and a green velvet interior. Black spine with green orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$4.50" has moderate age-toning throughout a large tear from the front head edge to title moderate wear along the edges mild chipping along the head edges moderate wear along the extremities. Boards have stains on the rear board mild age-toning along the edges mild wear along the edges mild wear along the fore corners and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild adhesive wear along the pastedowns mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Saul Bellow on title page. Contains a loose "An Evening with Saul Bellow" pamphlet. DL consignment. Shelved Case 2. Saul Bellow was born June 10 1915 in Lachine Quebec to two Jewish Lithuanian immigrants arriving from the then Russian Empire. They moved to Chicago when he was young. Bellows rebelled against his parent's expectations by pursuing a love of writing born of a love of the Torah Shakespeare and the great Russian authors of the 1800's. Bellows wrote his first novel "Dangling Man" while serving in the merchant marines in World War II seeing it published in 1944. Bellows would write "The Adventures of Augie March" in 1953 while in teaching in Paris under a Guggenheim Fellowship. "The Adventures of Augie March" has been hailed for it's dispelling of the traditional idea of the American hero as the eponymous Augie while having many heroic qualities and every opportunity to succeed fails to do so as he has no clear goal for himself chasing an ever elusive "better fate". The novel has been named as one of the 100 best novels in the English language by "TIME" magazine and Modern Library. 1386456. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover