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Sweeney, Ed. With an Introduction by Theodore Dreiser.. POORHOUSE SWEENEY: Life in a County Poorhouse.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Original gray cloth with paper title labels to spine and front cover; xi, [1], 178 pp., color frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations by the author. Slight fading to covers, else fine in price-clipped pictorial dustjacket with closed tear to rear panel at bottom of spine. A true account of life in the poorhouse with no literary or poetic aspirations whatsover, judging by Theodore Dreiser's strangely ambivalent introduction. Dreiser says: ". . . the author does somehow infuse into this narrative the glow of reality - the strangeness of a world one has never penetrated, yet which can no longer be wholly strange once one has read this. Art? No. A great book? No. Yet a very exceptional one."

Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.

Sweeney, Ed. Poorhouse Sweeney. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: Very good, spine label & spine soiled & spotted, light wear; Institutional stamp on endpaper; foreword by Theodore Dreiser; p. 178 pp.

Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.

Sweeney, Ed. Poorhouse Sweeney: Life in a Country Poorhouse. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$26.53 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. Frontis., xi, 178 pp., illus. Illustrated by the author. Foreword by Theodore Dreiser. Label on spine chipped, covers worn and soiled, corners bumped, stain on ffep.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Sweeney, Ed; Theodore Dreiser, foreword. Poorhouse Sweeney; life in a country poorhouse. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$30.20 + shipping

Description: xi, 178p., titling tipped-in spine and front board; color frontispiece, b&w plates, spine sunned, lacking dust jacket, corners a bit bumped, otherwise very good. "Art? No. A great book? No. Yet a very exceptional one. And but for a lack of poetry, a great one," (Dreiser vi).

Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

DREISER, Theodore. SWEENEY, Ed.. Poorhouse Sweeney: Life in a County Poorhouse.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: With a Foreword by Theodore Dreiser. xi, 178 pp. Illustrated by the Author. 8vo, publisher's cloth with printed paper labels, in dust jacket. First edition. A bright copy, with a little inoffensive sunning to the edges of the cloth and spine, in a dust jacket with two internal tape repairs and shallow chipping at the corners and extremities of the spine.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

SWEENEY, Ed (text); DREISER, Theodore (foreword). Poorhouse Sweeney: Life in a Country Poorhouse. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$66.00 + shipping

Description: First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); blue-grey cloth, with pictorial title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv,178pp, with color pictorial frontispiece and 10 inserted black & white plates of illustrations by the author. Gentle sunning to spine and extremities, some light pencil underlining in text, and some offsetting to p.1; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently sunned at spine and panels, showing moderate wear, some shallow losses, several tears, and long splits to front flap fold and rear joint; Good to Very Good. Real-life account of the author's six years spent at a county almshouse. With a foreword by Theodore Dreiser. MCDONALD, p.79.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

(Dreiser, Theodore) Sweeney, Ed. Poorhouse Sweeney; Life in a County Poorhouse. With a Foreword by Theodore Dreiser. Illustrated b the Author. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 178pp; cloth. Upper edge faintly sunstruck; fine in an attractive dust jacket, printed on textured paper, with some shallow chipping to the spine ends and tips, neat split to the hinge, and a small tape mend to the underside.

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

SWEENEY, Ed. Poorhouse Sweeney: Life in a Country Poorhouse. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Foreword by Theodore Dreiser. Illustrated by the author. Tips of spine and a few spots on the boards are faded, short closed tear in margin of one plate, not affecting the image and archivally mended, else near fine in near fine, bright dust jacket with a very thin chip at the crown and a small nicked tear at base of spine and on front panel. An attractive copy in the fragile dust jacket.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.