Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Theodore Dreiser. The Hand of the Potter: a Tragedy in Four Acts. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1918.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small ocavo bound in blue cloth and gray, paper-covered boards. Condition: top of spine nicked & frayed; general soiling to binding; else good. Most pages unopened. 209 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With linen cloth spine but without tipped in half title.VERY GOOD previous owner's bookplate, spine sunned with a couple of scratches,
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. The Hand of The Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$17.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 2nd issue bound in brown quarter cloth and green paper boards, sans DW; 209pp. Book shows soiling to extremes and spotting to top edge.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 209 pp., First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub; tan cloth spine over pale green boards
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hands of the Potter. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Top corners lightly bumped and worn with edge wear. Otherwise a good to very good copy with no markings or bookplate. Cloth spine somewhat darkened. No jacket. Second state with half-title page tipped to stub.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Theodore Dreiser. THE HAND OF THE POTTER. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 8 in. Cloth and paper boards. First state. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers a bit toned, corners worn, spine label chipped. Binding tight, text unmarked. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts.. Boni & Liveright;, NY, 1918.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing; brown w/lite green boards, black titles; moderate wear at spine/tips; 209 clean, unmarked pages Size: 12 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter (first edition). Boni and Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardcover, first edition, second issue with the last word on page 191 is "it", 1918, a tragedy in four acts, title on pastedown on spine, very good condition, no dj, very good condition, gift inscription on front endpaper, binding tight, a play by T. Dreiser. Size: Octavo
Seller: Casa Paloma Books, Green Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Boni & Liveright, 1918.
Price: US$41.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original maroon ribbed cloth with gilt square encompassing title. A near fine copy but for some slight gilt darkening to the shine and four small, very light discoloration spots to the lower front cover. The text is fine and unmarked, and the book tight and clean. Scarce.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition of this tragedy in four acts, published by Boni and Liveright in 1918. Bound in publishers red cloth with gold lettering to the spine and gold letterbox to the front board. ' It ' appears as last word to page 191, and with half title integral. A near fine copy with dulling to the spine lettering and a trace of wear to the tips and spine ends.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter. Boni and Liveright, 1918.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Tragedy in Four Acts, the first edition, published by Boni and Liveright in 1918. Bound in publisher's gray-green paper colored boards and tan spine. A near fine copy of the book with a bit of toning to the spine. Last word to page 191 is ' it ' . Half title integral.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
DREISER, THEODORE. THE HAND OF THE POTTER. BONI & LIVERIGHT, NY, 1918.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Description: 10mo; pp 209; G-/no-DJ; sunned tan spine with blue text to paper label; cloth has some lightly sunned exterior; rubbing to corners; moderate wear to fore edges; chipped glassine wrap; text block shows age toning to exterior edge; deckled fore edge; cracking to rear gutter; interior clean; 1316057. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. THE HAND OF THE POTTER. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Second binding with dark blue spine and green paper boards printed in black. Spine label a little rubbed, otherwise very good or better. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. The Hand of The Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first binding, second issue (but first published issue). Quarter cloth and printed green papercovered boards with paper spine label. "Tasch" nautical themed bookplate laid on front pastedown, gutter starting, moderately soiled, corners lightly bumped, still very good, without dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. The Hand of The Potter. A Tragedy in Four Acts. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first binding, second issue (but first published issue). Quarter cloth and printed green papercovered boards with paper spine label. A bit of soiling on the papercovered boards, else near fine without dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, second issue. Tragic theatrical play by the author of Sister Carrie set in the Jewish Upper East Side of New York City and a character who rapes and murders an eleven year old girl. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, split along front spine edge, small chip at mid spine, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore.. The Hand of the Potter: A Play.. N.Y:Boni and Liveright. 1918. Hardcover., 1918.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed.1st.issue. v.g.covers a little dirty. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter (First Edition). New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with date on title page, etc but seems to be second state of text. Very Good+ in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; small mark on front endpaper; some pages still unopened; only slight wear; dust jacket has moderate wear and light soil. Scarce in dust jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING AND COLLECTIBLE TITLES.
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. THE HAND OF THE POTTER. Boni & Liveright, 1918.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: THE HAND OF THE POTTER, Boni & Liveright, 1918, first edition (first issue binding), a very good to very good+ copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 209 pp. 12mo, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards in dust jacket. First edition; second issue of text. Some minor dust-soiling and bumping to boards; tight and sound in a jacket repaired on verso with a bookplate and a printed sticker; dust-soiling and edge wear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts. , 1918.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: DREISER, Theodore. The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts. Original cloth-backed printed boards, printed paper spine label, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First edition, first issue in natural linen-backed boards. McDonald 12. Minor chipping to ends of jacket spine panel, else fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 209pp; cloth-backed boards. An excellent copy, from the second issue with the last word on p. 191 being "it" Fine, crisp, bright copy in very lightly soiled dust jacket with a partial split to the front hinge and a neat, barely detectible mended tear at the base of the front panel.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. THE HAND OF THE POTTER. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1918.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards. Typical mixed issue, with the half-title page a cancel (an indication of early status), but with "it" on page191 and with the printing on the upper board resembling hand- lettering (the First Published Edition) of Dreiser's only full-length play; there was also a pre-publication copy which obviously was printed in a very small number. Twenty-five copies of this issue were signed on the title page by the author. This copy is SIGNED on the verso of the half-title page above the ads. Boni and Liveright printed this book early in 1918, but it was not actually published until September 1919 because it was being considered for production on the New York stage. Laid in is a TYPED LETTER SIGNED from publisher Horace Liveright dated 26 September 1919, the month of publication, forwarding the book to the noted collector Lafayette Butler. Liveright states, "Instead of persuading Mr. Dreiser to finish the trilogy, I have succeeded in getting him to finish THE BULWARK," mentioning that the novel would be published the following September. In fact, unknown to Liveright at the time, Dreiser had stopped working on the novel to begin work on AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, and he would not resume work on it for twenty-five years. THE BULWARK was not published until 1946, after Dreiser's death. This is an absolutely stunning copy of this first collaboration between Dreiser and Liveright in a bright, fresh dustwrapper that was in Butler's private collection for 80 years, from the time it was published until we purchased it in the summer of 1999. A small sticker with a crossed-out price is on the spine presumably placed there by the publisher. Quite likely the Finest copy in existence, bright and clean in a similar dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.