Three Soldiers
by Dos Passos, John
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Modern Library, 1932. First edition thus. Published NY: Modern Library, 1932. Introduction by John Dos Passos (1932). 12 mo., ix+471 pp., blue cloth with limp covers, gilt titles and design, top edge tinted blue. Fraying at the crown and heel, wear along edges, spine cloth faded, name stamp on h.t., pastedowns, one f.l., retailer stamp on t.p. Good.. 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket. 12mo.
Synopsis
Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically gifted Harvard graduate from New York. Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing effects of a regimented war machine on ordinary soldiers.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004334
- Title
- Three Soldiers
- Author
- Dos Passos, John
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1932
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- 12mo
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- Heel
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