Price: US$4.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. Like shelf wear.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John. U.S.A.: The Big Money. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1946.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in gray woven sailcloth over boards, U.S.A. stamped over blocked blue border at front cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. John Dos Passos's experimental trilogy that captures the developing culture of 20th-century United States, this being the third in the trilogy after Nineteen Nineteen and The 42nd Parallel. Named by the Modern Library as one of the 100-best English-language novels of the 20th century. Illustrated fancifully by Reginald Marsh. vii [1], 645 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Dos Passos, John; Reginald Marsh (Illustrator). Nineteen Nineteen. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1946.
Price: US$17.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in tan-color stamped buckram. No dust jacket. Early edition. Book is in very good+ condition, generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Second volume of Dos Passos's U. S. A. Trilogy. Illustrated throughout by Reginald Marsh. 8vo. 291 pp.
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Houghton Mifflin Company (The Riverside Press); Boston, 1946. Hardcover. Complete 3 Volume Set. A Good, grey cloth binding with red lettering on front board and spines, binding intact, starting hinges, heavily sunned spines, crimping to spine edges, some scattered foxing to board margin buckram and text block edges, bit of age toning to pages, rubbing along board edges, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, mild biblichor, without Dust wrapper. A good, overall clean and unmarked set. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches].,(The Big Money) 645pp., (The 42nd Parallel) 481pp., (Nineteen Nineteen) 545pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st illustrated edition. 3 volume set, in slipcase. A Near Fine set, in Good to Very Good dust jackets, housed in the publisher's Good slipcase. Tall 8vos. Tan cloth with USA in red stenciled lettering on blue fields; in pictorial dust jackets. The ligh tblue slipcase has a red paper title label; slipcase is soiled, with splits along its back edges and chipping at its opening. The dj are Very Good, with a little wear at the spine's crown and tail, with the exception of THE BIG MONEY, which has a couple of closed tears, and creases at the torn flap. The dj's are now protected in mylar. The trilogy is written in an experimental style, following 12 characters, and uses, letters, song lyrics, newsreels, and the 'Camera Eye' to tell its story of life in America, before and after the Great War. An American epic, it lands regularly on lists of the 100 best English Language novels of the 30th century.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Trade issue. Three octavo volumes; (23.5cm.); uniformly bound in cloth in paper-covered slipcase with printed wrap-around paper label; illus. Gentle, uniform toning to spine cloth, else a tight, unworn set, free of markings or notable wear. In the original slipcase, rubbed, with wear and faint staining at edges; just Very Good. There was a simultaneous signed, limited issue of 365 copies. Dos Passos' sweeping experimental trilogy, a literary portrait of American life during the first thirty years of the 20th century, following the lives of six men and six women from disparate social and professional groups. COAN, p. 82; HANNA 1022, 1025, & 1021.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$169.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1946 RE-ISSUE, 3 VOLUME SET, TWO CLOSED TEARS TO THE UNCLIPPED DJ OF THE NINETEEN NINETEEN ISSUE, CLEAN COPIES. OVERSEAS ORDERS WILL REQUIRE SUBSTANTIAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A handsome 3-volume set of John Dos Passos' classic trilogy in the scarce Limited Numbered First Illustrated Edition signed by the author and the artist, Reginald Marsh, on the limitation page in the first volume ["The 42nd Parallel"] and numbered 370 of 375 [Original issue of 365 plus 10 additional for family and friends]. Bound in cream buckram with pictorial "USA" endpapers, gilt titling on leather labels on the front and spine, with rough cut pages and gold gilt on the top edge of each volume. Overall each is a very solid and square book, with touches of soil and darkening to the spine and pages, a previous owners blue stamp on an early page in each volume (but not the limitation page] but with clean interiors. A stunning and scarce set. Limited Numbered First Illustrated Edition.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 365 three volume sets signed by the author and illustrator. Hardcover, bound in cloth. Spines discolored. Lacks slipcase.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1275.00 + shipping
Description: Set condition is Very Good, bound in full tan cloth and illustrated end pages. Some bumps to corners of boards. Slight scuffing and edge wear to exteriors. Texts are clean and unmarked. Ilustrated throughout. 8vo. 9 1/2"h x 6 1/4"w. This especially bound edition of the first printing of the illustrated U.S.A. is limited to 365 sets autographed by the author and artist, this is number 166.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: The 1946 re-issue of the second installment (originally published in 1932) of Dos Passos's formidable "USA" trilogy. THIS COPY INCLUDES A LAVISH 2 PG ORIGINAL INK DRAWING FROM ITS ILLUSTRATOR (THE FIRST-RANK PAINTER REGINALD MARSH) OF A FRENCH SOLDIER AND A WOMAN AT A TABLE HAILING A WINE-BEARING WAITER. A solid, well-preserved copy to boot. Clean and VG+ in its oatmeal cloth, with very mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, 545 pgs., generously illustrated thruout by Reginald Marsh himself. (From the collection of Barbara Adrian {1931-2014}, American painter and long-time instructor at the Art Students League in New York). Signed by Illustrator.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.