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Price: US$335.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. [Vol. I- 431 pp.: Vol. II - 409 pp.] 23 cm. Hardcovers. Publisher's original quarter-cloth and blue paper with rough-cut edges. Book(s) Condition: spine lettering dulled, spines toned with assortment of small nics, chips and rips (affecting Vol. I primarily), inner hinge of Vol. I cracked though binding is sound on both volumes and interior pages bright and unmarred. From the colophon of Volume I : "This Special Edition is Strictly Limited to 795 Numbered and Signed Copies. This Copy is Number 582." Lacking the slipcase. Theodore Dreiser was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930; though as it turned out, that was the year that the prize was awarded to Sinclair Lewis.
Seller: DuBois Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. 2 volumes.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 795 numbered copies signed by Dreiser. In battered original slipcase.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 840 pages; [SIGNED Limited Edition] 1925 Boni & Liveright. Two volumes. Soundly bound in original beige qurter cloth backed spine and french tips with blue paper covered sides. Signed by Dreiser in an edition limited to 795 copies; this copy is numbered 379. Title pages printed I blue and black. Pictorial bookplate of Annette Roberger to the front pastedown of both volumes. Solid clean set lacking the slipcase. VG++; Signed by Author
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. An American Tragedy [Limited Edition]. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition. Two volumes. Half cloth gilt and printed papercovered boards, page edges untrimmed. Neat pictorial bookplate ("Robert Thien") on the front pastedown of each volume. Spines modestly toned, a bit of light wear and soil, a near fine set with a bit of light sunning on the cover and a bit of modest staining (or offsetting) on the upper shoulder of Volume II. Lacking the slipcase. Number 31 of 795 numbered copies Signed by Dreiser on the limitation page in Volume I. A scathing indictment of American materialism and our legal system based on a celebrated murder case, it was Dreiser's first novel in a decade and brought him to the zenith of his critical and commercial success.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the limited signed issue, no. 294 of 795 numbered copies, signed by Dreiser. Title pages printed in blue and black. 2 vols. 8vo. Dreiser's classic novel of the rigidity of the American class structure, filmed in 1951 as A Place in the Sun, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. FPAA, IV, p. 160; Pizer, et al., A25-1; Smith D548 Cloth backed boards, french tips. Toning to first leaf from newspaper clipping. Very good set, partly unopened, in original slipcase with printed label (some rubbing and splitting) Title pages printed in blue and black. 2 vols. 8vo First edition of the limited signed issue, no. 294 of 795 numbered copies, signed by Dreiser.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy (Presentation copy). Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes in original publishers' boards. One of 795 deluxe copies, this one marked for Presentation, signed on the limitation page and additionally inscribed on the title: "For Mary Gold, who slaved on this. Theodore Dreiser." An excellent copy in all, with an important association. "Dreiser is widely regarded as the strongest of the novelists who have written about America as a business civilization. No one else confronted so directly the sheer intractibility of American social life and institutions, or dramatized with such solicitousness and compassion the difficulty of breaking free from social law. Dreiser had a genius for factuality: he recreated the inner workings of a factory, a stock exchange, a luxury hotel; he was definitive" (The New Yorker). Among the greatest of his works stands An American Tragedy, with its emphasis on sexual obsession and unquenchable desire. Indeed, the despair that characterizes the novel seems to stem from Dreiser's own troubled Catholicism and fascination with true crime. "The germ of the novel was a newspaper story of 1906: A young man was convicted of drowning a pregnant girl in Upstate New York.Dreiser clipped accounts of the case and brooded over it for years" and in the end he hoped to create "a crime sensation of the first magnitude, with all those intriguingly colorful yet morally atrocious elements -- love, romance, wealth, poverty, death" (The New Yorker). Very Good +.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.