Theodore dreiser text (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st American edition. Small octavo in red cloth binding. B&W illustrations. Condition: binding worn with some soiling, sun-fading at the spine; bumped corners; fraying at the top of the spine and nicked and toned paper spine label. Internally, very good and clean - overall, a good copy. Pages: xii, 144. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo in red cloth binding with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations. Condition: light rubbing & wear to binding; else good+ condition. 526 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. No. 207 of 1500 copies and signed on the limitation page by the illustrator. Two octavo volumes bound in full, black leather in red, paper-covered, publisher-issued slipcase. Toned illustrations. Condition: tear & chipping to top of spine of Vol. II; both spines rubbed with minor scuffing; some pages dog-eared; else good condition in stained slipcase. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); blue-grey cloth, with pictorial title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv,178pp, with color pictorial frontispiece and 10 inserted black & white plates of illustrations by the author. Gentle sunning to spine and extremities, some light pencil underlining in text, and some offsetting to p.1; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently sunned at spine and panels, showing moderate wear, some shallow losses, several tears, and long splits to front flap fold and rear joint; Good to Very Good. Real-life account of the author's six years spent at a county almshouse. With a foreword by Theodore Dreiser. MCDONALD, p.79. …

First Edition Thus. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bounad, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper- covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; viii,[3],4-771,[5]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. First puiblished in 1922 under the title A Book About Myself, this autobiography chronicles Dreiser's life as a reporter in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh in the 1890s. 8802. …

First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of a half-dozen or so copies specially bound and designated for the publisher and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" on the colophon. Octavo (24cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-410,[10]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A collection of 13 stories by Dreiser, originally published written between 1918-1934, with a new introduction by T.D. Nostwich. 6724. …

First Edition Thus. Deluxe Issue, one of a half-dozen or so copies specially bound and designated for the publisher and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and yellow cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [x],[2],3-616,[4]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Dreiser's autobiography, originally published in 1931 as Dawn: A History of Myself, here with a new introduction by Nostwich. 6725.…

dj. Reissue. One of 699 sets of first printing sheets bound in a Boni & Liveright binding, ca.1925 (see Ahearn APG 008c - the sheets used for this reissue are second state, with p.173-174 inserted). Thick octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 513, [1]pp. Text edges slightly dusty, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $5.00), slightly dusty overall, with light wear to extremities, a few nicks and tears, and 1.25" of erosion along upper front flap; Very Good+. "By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with teh idea of driving from New York to Indiana, Dreiser's response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I've been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route, Dreiser recorded his impressions f the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale, Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser's early life in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Evansville, Warsaw, and his one year at Indiana University" (Indiana University Press). Uncommon.…