Lot 45
  • 45

Dreiser, Theodore.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description

  • An American Tragedy. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925
  • printed books
8vo (190 x 127mm), 2 volumes,  first edition, publisher's black cloth gilt, original dust-jackets with woodcut portrait of author, publisher's cardboard slipcase with printed label, gilt slightly rubbed, jackets somewhat browned, foot of spine of vol. 2 jacket chipped, slipcase with some wear, upper joint split

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Dreiser's celebrated novel, which served as the basis for George Stevens's classic 1951 film A Place in the Sun.