ALGREN, Nelson (1909-1981). Pair of First Editions in Dust Jacket, One Inscribed, including: The Neon Wilderness. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1947. 8vo. 286, [2, blank] pp. Publisher's full green cloth, spine lettered in burgundy, price-clipped (both flaps clipped) dust jacket (cloth spine sunned, some toning, rubbing to cloth, text and endleaves toned; jacket worn, soiled, chipped, torn). A good copy in a fair jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ALGREN ON THE FFEP IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION: “Best wishes to Mrs. Lily Friedman from Nelson Algren Jan. 30 ‘47". And: Chicago: City on the Make. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1951. Small 8vo. 92, [2, blank] pp. Publisher's black cloth backstrip over gray boards, spine lettered in silver, publisher's unclipped (“$1.50") dust jacket (minor rubbing to jacket). Fine. FIRST EDITION.