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Three Soldiers
by Dos Passos, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Redmond, Washington, United States
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About This Item
First Edition. Near fine in first issue dust jacket, with just a hint of the usual fading to the spine. The book is the first issue, with no Doran colophon on copyright page, and "signing" for "singing" on page 213, line 31. The endpapers, however, are a puzzle. The rear is as expected, with normal endpapers and no blank leaf, but the front seems to have no free endpaper and two blank leaves, making it seem like a normally bound book. One can assume it was "fixed" at some time, but by whom and why? A knowledgeable collector certainly would not do so. Given the near fine condition of the book and jacket, it would seem they have been together since publication. It is possible, as a first issue copy, that the publisher attempted to "fix" it. This is mere speculation, of course, but the only answer that makes logical sense. In any event, a lovely copy, with oddity noted, of what many consider Dos Passos's finest novel, and a masterpiece of Modernist literature.
Synopsis
Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically gifted Harvard graduate from New York. Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing effects of a regimented war machine on ordinary soldiers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alandian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64
- Title
- Three Soldiers
- Author
- Dos Passos, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doran
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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