The Man with the Golden Arm

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1949. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, minor shelfwear, mild age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has a tiny chunk missing from the lower right front panel, a couple more tiny bits of paper loss at the top of the spine, a small closed tear at the top of the front panel, light staining/tanning along the spine]. Algren's most well-known novel, a tale of a morphine-addicted gambler that was the basis for the 1955 Otto Preminger-directed film of the same name, which put up a serious challenge to the tenets of the Motion Picture Production Code. It was one of the first major Hollywood films to achieve significant books despite having initially been released (by United Artists) without a Code seal. .