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Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 435 pages of text. Inscribed on front endpaper "For Herbert V. Prochnow from [signed] Theodore Dreiser NY 1934." One word following "NY" is not legible. Grey hardcover cloth binding is slightly shelfworn at extremities, mostly to spine, with a few tiny spots of staining, and one corner lightly bumped. Endpapers are slightly browned. The rear pastedown has two labels affixed which are fragments of the mailing packaging. The unclipped dustjacket with moderate wear to edges and extremities with minor chipping, soiling, a few light creases and a small loss of color due to marring on front flap; protected in archival mylar. This is a mixed state copy, with "pocketed " for "filched" on page 49 line 14, with all others corrected. Included is a TLS on Dreiser's stationery, signed by his secretary, Evelyn Light, dated Feb 14, 1934. Additionally, a postcard signed by Light dated Feb 27, 1934, and a copy of the original letter sent by Prochnow on Jan 26, 1934 to Dreiser, requesting that he autograph the book. First edition, mixed state.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
DREISER, Theodore. DAWN: A HISTORY OF MYSELF. Horace Liveright, Inc. (1931), New York, 1931.
Price: US$1562.50 + shipping
Description: There was also a limited signed edition of 275 copies. This copy is INSCRIBED for Ralph Fabri "love included" and SIGNED by Dreiser in May of 1931 (The book was published May 8.). Fabri was a Hungarian painter who was commissioned to paint a portrait of Dreiser's cousin and companion Helen in 1929 and who became Helen's confidant as she poured out her troubles over Dreiser's womanizing. Dreiser would marry Helen in 1944, a year before his death. Fabri, who became a lifelong friend of both Dreisers, was eventually put in charge of supervising the construction of Dreiser's monstrous home, Iroke, that would prove to be an albatross to the writer in his later, more difficult financial years. Some sunning to the spine which has minor wear at the head. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.