Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DOS PASSOS, JOHN. The U.S.A. Trilogy. Comprising: The 42nd Parallel, Nineteen Nineteen, The Big Money. Together, 3 volumes. All volumes illustrated by Reginald Marsh. 8vo, cream buckram over beveled boards, scattered finger soiling, pictorial endpapers, spines gilt lettered, morocco lettering labels on spines and front covers, spines sunned and spine labels a bit scuffed; top edges gilt, later acetate dust jackets; Otis Skinner Blodget bookplates laid in. Boston, 1946

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number 267 of 350 sets signed by the author and the artist on the The 42nd Parallel volume limitation page. Dos Passos's major achievement. The U.S.A. Trilogy was ranked 23rd by The Modern Library on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.