A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

by Nelson Algren

$100 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956 . First edition. First printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans. Fine in very good dust jacket. Item #46038 Ostensibly about the natural toughness of women and men, in that order jacket , A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE focuses more on how the lives

• Printing: first

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