Most Likely to Succeed by Dos Passos, Don - 1954

New York: Doubleday, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Preface by John Dos Passos. Illustrated by Leonard Pearl and Leonard Sansone. Offsetting on endpapers, spine ends lightly bumped, very good or better in a good only edgeworn and soiled dustwrapper torn down the front panel and in two pieces. Unforgettable writing by 53 disabled war veterans.

(Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard Wake), 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Number 5. Octavo. 91pp. Illustrated with a portrait of Cummings by Harry Dunham. Printed wrappers over stapled textblock. Wrappers with a tanned spine, moderate soil, and a tiny stain on the lower wrap, very good and sound. The text is fine. Prints three pieces by Cummings, as well as appreciations by Don dos Passos, Marianne Moore, Fairfield Porter, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, and others. Also notable for containing Robert Creeley's first published poem, "Return.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : Stackpole Sons ; The Telegraph Press, 1946., 1946. Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole… Read More