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Dreiser, Theodore. A Hoosier Holiday. John Lane Company, NY, 1916.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 514 page hardcover with illustrations by Franklin Booth. This copy is inscribed by Booth on the title page and dated December 6, 1916. The book condition is just good - the exterior has some wear at corners and edges and some soiling. Interior interior is unmarked, tight and clean. Gilt top edge. The account of Dreiser and Booth, friends returning by auto to visit their hometowns and families in Indiana. Not a copy for the fine condition collector - a good copy only.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, second state. Original green cloth, decorated endpapers. Signed by Dreiser: "Theodore Dreiser Aug. 26, 1916." The rear free endpaper has a hole punch at the top. Illustrations by Franklin Booth.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Three books by Theodore Dreiser: Theodore Dreiser. A Hoosier Holiday. New York: John Lane Company, 1916. First issue, second state. Large octavo, 513 pages. This very good copy comes with rare dust jacket. Very good- and good+ dust jacket. Dust jacket is missing portions at head and tail of spine, and a close tear along back cover, but remains intact. Boards show minimal shelf wear. Uncut textblock is clean and shows slight but even age-toning throughout. Page 173/4 is inserted as a cancel leaf consistent with the second state, and bound in green buckram spine consistent with first issue. Theodore Dreiser. Epitaph. New York: Heron Press Incorporated, 1929. Limited Edition, No. 471 of 1100. Quarto, un-numbered pages (29- leaf.) Bound in brown cloth with gray lettering to spine. Signed and numbered by Theodore Dreiser to dedication page. Printed on fine translucent handmade paper with each leaf folded at upper edge. Very good to good. Moderate fading to boards with wear to corners and edges. Missing a majority portion of spine cover, but title still intact. ¼ " splitting to upper and bottom joints and hinges. All pages are in very good condition with mild age toning. Theodore Dreiser. A Book About Myself. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. Octavo, 502 pages. Bound in red cloth with gold titling to spine. Mild soiling to boards with light scuffing and worn corners. Bumping to head and tail. Splitting to top and bottom of back joints and hinges. Age toning to pages. CX Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1348185. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. A HOOSIER HOLIDAY. John Lane, 1916.
Price: US$406.00 + shipping
Description: A HOOSIER HOLIDAY, Lane, 1916, first edition (first issue without page 173 on a stub), light wear and professional restoration to the fragile paper board fore edge corner tips, else a vg copy. Illustrated by Franklin Booth. Considered to be among the first and most important books of the open road and perhaps initiating the romance of travel by automobile nationwide. INSCRIBED by the author. Most uncommon thus.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
DREISER, THEODORE. A HOOSIER HOLIDAY. , 1916.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: DREISER, Theodore. A HOOSIER HOLIDAY. Illustrated by Franklin Booth. NY: John Lane, 1916. Thick 8vo., cloth & decorative boards in dust jacket. First Edition, first state, with "The war! The war! They were chasing" in the last paragraph on p. 173. In the first issue binding with a green buckram spine. Signed by Dreiser on the title page and dated by him 1919. Very Good (corners of boards worn- which is not unusual with this title; little darkening or bit of soil boards; binding & text tight & clean); little edgewear (few small chips but pretty nice) d/j. Uncommon to locate a nice, signed copy in the dust jacket! $500.00.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 513 pages; VG/VG-; spine olive drab, with dark green lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; in preferred binding; mild shelf wear and soiling; small chips missing at corners of flap folds; small chip missing from upper edge of jacket front; small chips missing at tail of jacket spine; two small closed tears each to upper and lower edges of jacket back; upper edge gilt; inscribed by Dreiser at title page; uncut pages throughout; mild pencil marginalia; first state, with "The War! The War!" at page 173; contains black and white illustrations; CX consignment; shelved Case 9. 1346058. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, First State.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.