U.S.A. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. Three volumes. Signed first printing, 1946
by John Dos Passos, Reginald Marsh
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company. Used - Very Good. 1946. Hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Slipcase included. Houghton Mifflin Company, three-volume set, first edition thus, first printing, 1946. Number 340 of 350 numbered copies signed by Dos Passos and Marsh. Vol. 1: The 42nd Parallel. 8vo. xiv + 481 pp. Vol. 2: Nineteen Nineteen. 8vo. vii + 545 pp. Vol. 3: The Big Money. 8vo. 645 pp. Slipcase has chipping to edges, scuffing to sides, and sunning to three quarters of left side; but case still intact and attractive. All three volumes quite handsome, with decorative paste downs and endpapers. Minor rubbing and soiling to boards. Sunning and faint staining to spines, with hint of dampstain at top of spine of Vol. 1. Some wear to spine title plates. Internals clean and bright. Very Good. (Subject: Fiction).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S79185
- Title
- U.S.A. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. Three volumes. Signed first printing, 1946
- Author
- John Dos Passos, Reginald Marsh
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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