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Auction archive: Lot number 83

U. S. A.

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$468
Auction archive: Lot number 83

U. S. A.

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$468
Beschreibung:

U. S. A. Author: Dos Passos, John Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 1946 Description: Three volumes. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh (8vo) cream buckram and beveled boards. Leather labels on covers and spines and gilt lettering on spine, with pictorial paste-downs; top edge gilt. Copy 235 of 365 of deluxe first edition, signed in vol. 1 (42nd Parallel) by John Dos Passos and Reginald Marsh Includes: 42nd Parallel Nineteen Nineteen The Big Money On Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, the U. S. A. trilogy was awarded twenty-third place. It follows the lives of twelve characters and the successes and failures they experience during the first thirty years of the twentieth century, with a particular eye to the political tensions between the working class and the wealthy and social climbers. Lot Amendments Condition: Slight discoloration at the heads and feet of spines. Most leaves in each volume left uncut. Fine. Item number: 323724

Auction archive: Lot number 83
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2022
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

U. S. A. Author: Dos Passos, John Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 1946 Description: Three volumes. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh (8vo) cream buckram and beveled boards. Leather labels on covers and spines and gilt lettering on spine, with pictorial paste-downs; top edge gilt. Copy 235 of 365 of deluxe first edition, signed in vol. 1 (42nd Parallel) by John Dos Passos and Reginald Marsh Includes: 42nd Parallel Nineteen Nineteen The Big Money On Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, the U. S. A. trilogy was awarded twenty-third place. It follows the lives of twelve characters and the successes and failures they experience during the first thirty years of the twentieth century, with a particular eye to the political tensions between the working class and the wealthy and social climbers. Lot Amendments Condition: Slight discoloration at the heads and feet of spines. Most leaves in each volume left uncut. Fine. Item number: 323724

Auction archive: Lot number 83
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2022
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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