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John Dos Passos. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Price: US$23.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No jacket. Pages and endpapers unmarked.
Seller: Bethesda Used Books, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Price: US$39.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owners name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
PASSOS, John Dos. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1925.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Early Printing, two months after first printing with code 'M-Z' on copyright page. Octavo, original black cloth over boards, color illustrations pasted to front and rear covers, paper label pasted to spine. Novel focusing on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. Good, moderate shelf wear, slightly soiled, time-toned pages, hinges cracked and boards holding but looking toward detaching, wear to paper label on spine, pencil and ink marks on endpapers.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
John Dos Passos. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers January 1925, 1925.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Used Good Condition Ex-Library Copy without Dust Jacket. Minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean and bright. Spine is straight and tight.
Seller: Reclaimed Bookstore, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1925.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 404 pages; 1925 Harper & Brothers. HC 1st edition, stated with K-Z date code on copyright page. Soundly bound in the black cloth binding variant with black lettering on yellow paper title labels to cover and spine. Though the binding is sound it is shaken and the spine is shelf cocked; rear hinge tender. Light toning to title labels. Mild shelf tapping to boards at corner tips. Prior owner name penned to front endpage. G+
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 404 pp + ii adverts. text in 3 sections with sub-divided titled chapters. Binding tight with slight forward lean, pages unmarked but slightly age-toned, 5.5" x 7.8" colored boards with black cloth spine, darkened but legible paper stamp on spine. in glassine wrapper. Size: Small Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. MANHATTAN TRANSFER. Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Price: US$143.64 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.58
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. MANHATTAN TRANSFER. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 404 pages; G+/None; contemporary full black cloth binding;spine with age toned yellow paper label with black lettering; marked shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped and slightly shredded; light-colored scuffing and soiling to front board; some fading to spine; spine label age toned and missing two large chips; back board scraped and scuffed; spine cocked; binding shaken; pages clean; CX consignment; shelved Case 6. There is also an illustrated boards variant, but no priority has been established.; 1346188. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
DOS PASSOS, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1925.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, with "K-Z" code on copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with printed paper labels mounted to upper spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],404,[2]pp ads. Wear to spine ends and extremities, sunning to spine, with some offsetting to endpapers, binding a little shaken, and a partial crack to upper rear hinge; Very Good only. In a supplied, later (ca.1935) dustjacket, nearly identical to one of the two first printing variants, but priced $2.50, and with five rear panel blurbs beginning with Wilder's Heaven's My Destination and ending with Hugh Talbot's Gay Pagan; shelfworn, spine-sunned, with a few small splash marks, and several small chips, tears, and attendant creases to extremities; Very Good only. A mosaic of New York City life - "episodic, with diverse characters being brought together by the chaotic, unplanned happenings of the early 1920's. Catches the seething vitality and enormous variety of the city" (Coan, p.105). HANNA 1024.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Dos Passos John. MANHATTAN TRANSFER. New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1925, 1925.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo, publishers original brown cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered on beige labels. 404 [2 ads] pp. A very good and handsome copy, some light evidence of age, the front letter label slightly scuffed at the corner, but overall in clean condition. CONSIDERED ONE OF DOS PASSOS'S GREATEST WORKS. D.H. Lawrence said it was, "the best modern book about New York."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
DOS PASSOS, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1925.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 404 p. + 2 p. of advertising. Black cloth with yellow print. Wrapped in protective mylar (removed for photo). Paper title label on spine shows a little edge wear. Bottom corners a bit worn. Spine faded with some wear to ends. Pages browning. Occasional spots or thumbing but overall very clean. The author's landmark novel starring New York City itself. Manhattan Transfer focuses on the development of urban life in New York from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age in a series of overlapping individual stories. Considered one of Dos Passos's most important works, it uses experimental writing techniques that would be perfected in his later U.S.A. Trilogy. Potter 7. Modern Library 100, 23.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
DOS PASSOS, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DOS PASSOS, John [404] pp. Harper & Brothers First Edition 1925 7 3/4" x 5 3/8" This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION with "First edition K-Z" printed on the copyright page. Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. It is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The book shows some of Dos Passos' experimental writing techniques and narrative collages that would become more pronounced in his U.S.A. trilogy and other later works. The technique in Manhattan Transfer was inspired in part by James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and bears frequent comparison to the experiments with film collage by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. Sinclair Lewis described it as "a novel of the very first importance . The dawn of a whole new school of writing." D. H. Lawrence called it "the best modern book about New York" he had ever read, describing it as "a very complete film . of the vast loose gang of strivers and winners and losers which seems to be the very pep of New York." In a blurb for a European edition, Ernest Hemingway wrote that, alone among American writers, Dos Passos has "been able to show to Europeans the America they really find when they come here."
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
John Dos Passos. MANHATTAN TRANSFER. Harper and Brothers, NY, 1925.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 1st ed, 1st printing with K-Z code on copyright page. A FINE HARDCOVER BOOK IN THE SCARCE REMNANTS OF THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. This work is found in two different bindings, one being black cloth with a yellow title label and the other being a pictorial design. This book is bound in black cloth with Harper imprint blindstamped on bottom right corner of front cover and a yellow title label lettered in black. Light scratch on back cover else the book is in fine condition. The dust jacket is in poor condition and is LACKING BOTH THE FRONT AND REAR FLAP. The front panel, spine, and rear panel are present. The rear panel has sveral small closed tear and chips along its top edge. The spine has some shallow chipping at the top left and LACKS THE BOTTOM TWO INCHES. The title/author lettering on the spine is all present. The front panel has a dime-size chip at the top left corner, a similar chip at the lower right corner, and some wear along the right edge where it would have connected with the now missing front flap. All told this is only an acceptable example of the jacket but it is original and unrestored.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
John Dos Passos. Manhattan Transfer. Harpers, 1925.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Colorful Cover: Good. Text: VG; Some give to the binding/spine. Overall Good
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1925.
Price: US$1999.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth with yellow title boxes titled in black. Stated first edition k-z. Spine ends/points mildly rubbed/frayed, spine title box foxed, a few spots to boards, very slightly cocked. PO name/small stamp to ffep. Hinge starting page 121, pages mildly toned, slight foxing to rear endpage. The DJ in mylar is separated into two parts at spine, chipped at spine ends, toned/slightly spotted at spine, rubbed through at flap fold and points. Flap price of $2.00 intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer.. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1925.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dos Passos' "novel of the very first importance.the dawn of a whole new school of writing" (Sinclair Lewis). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with chips to the extremities. Scarce in the original dust jacket. Focusing on the development of Urban Life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, De Passos' Manhattan Transfer is considered one of his most important works and bears frequent comparison to to the experiments with film collage by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. Through a series of overlapping individual narratives, the book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Passos, John Dos. MANHATTAN TRANSFER. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York & London, 1925.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed / inscribed by Dos Passos in blue ink to the half title page - rubbed edges to the pictorial boards with black cloth spine with original paper label - complete in 404 bright pages. Dust jacket with tape to verso at head and tail of spine and is also edgeworn - with some light discoloration / staining along the spine. From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! ; Signed by Author
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
John Dos Passos. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1925.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harper & Brothers, 1925. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by John Dos Passos directly on the front page (NOT ON AN ADDED BOOKPLATE OR TIPPED IN PAGE). This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION with "First edition K-Z" printed on the copyright page. A very nice copy in black binding with yellow paper titles on front and spine. The ORIGINAL dustjacket has the $2.00 price present. The book is in nice, collectible condition with light wear to the edges but sharp corners and no fading to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a great copy seldom found with the original dustjacket. The dustjacket has chips and edge wear and water stains on the back, still very rare. This copy SIGNED by the author directly on the book. Pictures available upon request. $4,500
Seller: E. B. Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer. Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by John Dos Passos on a tipped in signature. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION with "First edition K-Z" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy in the preferred binding with matching design on boards of book. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the $2.00 price present with some wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Dos Passos First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.