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The Adventures of Augie March

1953rif. 311-5436New York: Viking 1953. Near Fine in a Good dust jacket. Bound in black and gray cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in orange. Orange topstain. Octavo. 536pps. First Printing. The book and jacket are First State: Vail-Ballou on the copyright page along with topstain. The edges of the cloth and the closed page edges are slightly sundarkened. Otherwise clean bright square and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. The dust jacket glossy in a new mylar sleeve has considerable edge-chipping a long closed tear at the bottom of the front panel and the front flap-fold dust-spotted is half-detached from the front panel secured now in said sleeve. The original price 4.50 is intact. A blurb for 'The Short Novels of John Steinbeck' is on the rear flap. A nice collector's-quality copy of the author's third novel and winner of the National Book Award. Uncommon in the flawed though first-state jacket. ".Augie the exuberant narrator-hero is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression. His mother deserted by her husband has taken in a tough old boarder Grandma Lausch who rules the family -- slow-witted Georgie ambitious Simon super-observant Augie -- like a benevolent despot. Augie's friends set out to make their fortunes in various ways but he sees himself as chosen for a special destiny. A 'born recruit' he makes himself available for a series of occupations then proudly rejects each one as unworthy. Instead of allowing himself to be drafted he takes matters into his own hands. The choices that he makes independently are -- to say the least -- eccentric. 'Life among the Machiavellians' is the subtitle Mr. Bellow privately chooses to describe the ups and downs of Augie's unsteady life. Augie's own oddity is reflected in the companions he encounters -- plungers schemers risk-takers 'hole and corner' operators like the would-be tycoon Einhorn or the would-be siren Thea who travels with an eagle trained to hunt small creatures." Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. 41-A. First Edition. Cloth. Viking Hardcover

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