Theodore Dreiser. Twelve Men. Boni & Liveright, 1919.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other name present. Very early (third) printing one month after the first in the year of publication, in the original black cloth with yellow title and the date on both the title and copyright pages. Books signed by Dreiser are scarce. This copy is very well preserved, clean, bright and unmarked. In a professionally made facsimile dust jacket protected by a thick archival Mylar jacket.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Theodore Dreiser. Twelve Men. Boni Liveright, 1919.

Price: US$425.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: blue gold cloth, third printing May 1919, inscribed by author in Los Angeles Dec. 1919

Seller: Fantastic Book Discoveries, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.

Dreiser, Theodore. Twelve Men (SIGNED). Boni & Liveright, New York, 1919.

Price: US$505.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1919 copyright date matches date to title page; no later printings mentioned. Thus, the first printing as per publisher's 1928 statement. "Good" original dust jacket priced "$1.75 net" to spine; jacket chipped to corners, missing top 1/2-inch of jacket spine. Dated March 31 -- 1923 and signed (author's full name) to blank FFE. Contemporary newspaper clippings about this book -- and about Dreiser's partial authorship of the song "On the Banks of the Wabash" -- glued to front pastedown and (respectively) tipped to Rear Free Endpaper, which has resulted in offset browning to the facing prelim and final blank pages. Not fiction -- though some of the segments read like short stories -- but rather profiles of 12 men who were major influences on the author's life and work. While this title is not as sought-after as "Sister Carrie," signed Dreisers in original jackets from as early as 1919 are, needless to say, uncommon. 360 pp., reduced from $800.

Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.