John Dos Passos

First edition, first printing set of Dos Passos's seminal trilogy, The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with a story of wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street boardrooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

• Sold as a set of 3.
• John Dos Passos (American).
• The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money.
• New York: Harper & Brothers; Harcourt Brace and Company, 1930/1932/1936. 
• 426, 473, and 561 pages.
• Octavos.
• All first editions with "first edition' on the copyright pages and no other printings noted.
• Including original pictorial dust jackets.