Dos Passos, John. USA Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel; Nineteen Nineteen; and The Big Money [3 Vol]. Houghton Mifflin, 1946.

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.

Dos Passos, John; illustrated by Reginald Marsh. U.S.A. Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel, Nineteen Nineteen, The Big Money. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1946.

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.

Passos, John Dos ; illustrated by Reginald Marsh. U.S.A. Trilogy [ Complete Three Volume Set ] Volume I : The 42nd Parallel Volume II : Nineteen Nineteen Volume III : The Big Money. Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, MA, 1946.

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.

John Dos Passos. Nineteen Nineteen (With an Original 2 Pg. Ink Drawing by Reginald Marsh). Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1946.

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.