DREISER THEODORE Sister Carrie

Sale 2388 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 3,900

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

DREISER, THEODORE. Sister Carrie. 8vo, original red cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, very light rubbing to spine tips and corners; waterstain to lower outer corner gradually extending as faint tidemark along fore- and top-edge page margins, heaviest to terminal blanks with marginal ink bleed on rear pastedown and facing blank. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1900

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

first edition of dreiser's first novel; an unsophisticated copy. Virtually suppressed by the publisher Frank Doubleday due to its perceived immoral subject matter, Sister Carrie was grudgingly released with little mention and the resultant sales were predictably low. Doubleday's secretary: "These are the actual facts about Sister Carrie, as revealed by the analysis card. The first edition consisted of 1,008 copies, of which 129 were sent out for review, 465 were sold, and the balance, 423 copies, were turned over to J.F. Taylor & Company" (Orton, p. 17).