ALGREN, NELSON. The Man With the Golden Arm. 8vo, publisher's cream cloth, trace of rubbing to bottom corners; dust jacket, oversized proof, priced $3.00, and another proof jacket, 10mm shorter and not priced, each with horizontal crease where previously folded, creasing and rubbing to top edges; ownership stamp and signature to front endpaper and half-title, respectively; publisher's green pastedown/endpaper proofs sized for trimming, one sheet, folded twice, laid in; cloth clamshell box. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1949