BELLOW, Saul.
The Adventures of Augie March.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
First edition of Saul Bellow’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece, the exuberant Chicago novel that opens with the celebrated line, “I am an American, Chicago born.” Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf, top grades of Nigerian moroccos, and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
The Adventures of Augie March is the third novel by Saul Bellow and the book that made his reputation, winning the National Book Award for Fiction in 1954. Narrated in an exuberant, freewheeling voice that begins “I am an American, Chicago born,” it follows the picaresque adventures of its irrepressible hero from Depression-era Chicago outward into the wider world, marking a decisive break from the more controlled style of Bellow’s earlier fiction. The novel established Bellow as one of the major American writers of the twentieth century; he went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize and, in 1976, the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Modern Library later named The Adventures of Augie March one of the hundred best English-language novels of the century.
The Adventures of Augie March.
$975.00
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