The Adventures of Augie March

New York: Viking Press, 1953. Very Good +/Good. New York: Viking Press, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (22cm); 536pp. Publisher’s price-clipped dust jacket; boards bound in black and grey cloth with orange stamping. Dust jacket toned and smudged; edges rather bumped with tears and chips throughout. Chipping with loss at spine. Boards lightly bumped and faintly toned. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets toned; interior pages clean. Previous owner’s bookplate at first fixed endsheet. A Very Good or better book in a Good jacket.

Bellow’s picaresque novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1954.