Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 214
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
DOS PASSOS, JOHN. District of Columbia. Introduction by Arthur Mizener. Thick 8vo, cloth; dust jacket. Boston, 1952

Additional Details

First Edition. Inscribed and Signed to wife of Marvin K. Heffner, of the Ernest Hemingway Society. With 7-page Typed Manuscript by Mizener of the Introduction, with his pencil corrections, stapled. With TLS by Edward Weeks of The Atlantic, to Paul Brooks of Houghton Mifflin, commenting negatively on Mizener's treatment of Dos Passos in the Intro (likely a solicitation for a jacket blurb). 1 page, 8vo. 7 May 1951; on The Atlantic Monthly letterhead.