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Theodore Dreiser. The Titan. John Lane, 1914.
Price: US$17.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Spine folds splitting, inside text block is solid and clean, 1st edition 1914, ex-library
Seller: Penn and Ink Used and Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. Titan. John Lane, London and New York, 1914.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Good. No Dj. 1st Edition 1st Issue. John Lane, NY, 1914. Gilt lettering is clean, but heather blue textured cloth with Art Nouveau design in dark blue on the cover shows two dime sized spots on front, the rear shows some soiling, fraying at head of spine at hinge. Text block is bright clean, binding is square, tight, pages flow freely. No markings save library markings from the Poland Spring Maine Library, which includes an embossed stamp on title page.The second volume in Dreiser's epic trilogy of big city American business and politics which follows the rise, fall, and rise again of the driven and unscrupulous broker Frank Algernon Cowperwood, a fictional account based on the career of Charles Yerkes, financial genius who engineered the construction of the Chicago Loop and the British Subway System in this condition, an internally bright and clean, very good copy.
Seller: Douglas Park Media, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. The Titan. John Lane Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Speckled blue cloth boards with gilt titles and stamped blue decorations. Spine a bit toned and some edgewear on the boards, very good lacking the dust jacket. A title in Dreiser's *Trilogy of Desire* set in Chicago.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The TItan. John Lane, New York, 1914.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Original blue cloth, spine slightly tanned, joints slightly rubbed, small spot on fore edge. An attractive copy, with the gilt bright.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Theodore Dreiser. The Titan. John Lane, New York, 1914.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Lane, NY, 1914. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dreiser's second book of the Cowperwood "Trilogy of Desire". a fictional account based on the career of Charles Yerkes, financial genius who engineered the construction of the Chicago Loop and the British Subway System-------lovely copy of a book that is often found in faded and worn condition. note the ------heather blue textured cloth with Art Nouveau butterfly design in dark blue on the cover with bright gilt titles------the spine is not sunned but slanted, thus very good plus overall, note this is a special copy from the collection of the descendents of Henry Schoolcraft of Kansas City F. H. Schoolcraft with their engraved book plate----clean, white endpapers and boards---sharp corners-----spine titles are dulled somewhat but legible------bright, clean excellent text.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Titan [in jacket]. John Lane, 1914.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The usual browning to cloth is present. This copy in the rare jacket. The jacket is torn in half along front spine gutter but still fits together well in mylar. Beyond that the jacket has shallow chipping to spine ends. $1.40 first issue price on spine.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Titan.. John Lane Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the second book in the author's acclaimed Trilogy of Desire. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For George T. Keating my most American book Theodore Dreiser N.Y. City 1919." The recipient George Keating was a well-known book collector in the early twentieth century, who amassed a large Joseph Conrad collection. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing and offsetting to the endpapers. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case. "Dreiser "relied on his own energetic research into the life of his model, the street-railway magnate Charles Tyson Yerkes. [Through] the fictional Frank Cowperwood The Titan details Cowperwood-Yerkesâs stock and street-railway manipulations in Chicago and his long series of sexual conquests. Harperâs, after having printed and advertised the novel, backed out of publishing it, and Dreiser had to find another publisher" (DAB 3, 236).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Titan. John Lane, 1914.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with minor repair. This First Issue dustjacket with the $1.40 printed price present has NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent shape. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy of this true first edition seldom seen with this original dustjacket. We buy Dreiser First Editions in dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.