Who Lost an American?

Author:  Nelson Algren (1909-1981) signedYear: 1963Publisher: MacMillan CompanyPlace: New YorkDescription:viii+337 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publishers blue cloth with two toned brown and beige binding and green lettering to cover and brown and green lettering to spine in original jacket. Signed First editionThe bon voyage party was attended by such literary lights as the chief junior editor of Double deal and Wundershot, a novelist named Norman Nalifellow, and Ginny Ginstruck, the agent. Afterward the author found himself aboard the first-class ship Meyer Davis, sailing over a first-class sea. His grand tour encompassed London, Paris, Dublin, Barcelona, Seville, Almeria, Istanbul, Crete - and his hometown Chicago. This book, however, is not so much an "inside Europe" - heaven help the tourist who tried to duplicate his travel adventures - as an "Inside Nelson Algren." To be sure, there is "scenery" in these pages - London's ancestral mists, the bright, enormous mor