A Walk on the Wild Side, Nelson Algren
First edition, first printing of Algren's classic fourth novel, depicting the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans. Basis for the 1962 film starring Lawrence Harvey & Jane Fonda.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. Publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over yellow spine; pp. (vi), 346. An about near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, minor wear and toning to board extremities, internally clean. Jacket shows some general shelfwear and rubbing with chipping to spine crown, faint dampstain to back panel. A presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.