DOS PASSOS, John. Nineteen Nineteen. London: Constable. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in yellow to the spine and front board, in the dust jacket designed by ‘Candem’. A very good book, the cloth clean, the backstrip a trifle faded, the boards firm. The binding tight and square, gently pushed at corners and tips. The contents clean and fine throughout barring a few minor marks. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), the spine panel heavily toned, with several small nicks, chips and closed tears to extremities with discreet adhesive tape repairs to verso top edge.
The uncommon British edition of Dos Passos’ second volume in his acclaimed USA Trilogy, the first 42nd Parallel (1930) and the third The Big Money (1936), and this published in the same year as the US edition. His British publishers, Constable, who had already published Dos Passos’ still underappreciated Manhattan Transfer (1927), published a single-volume edition of the USA Trilogy in 1938. The standalone editions are uncommon in jacket.
DOS PASSOS, John. Nineteen Nineteen. London: Constable. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in yellow to the spine and front board, in the dust jacket designed by ‘Candem’. A very good book, the cloth clean, the backstrip a trifle faded, the boards firm. The binding tight and square, gently pushed at corners and tips. The contents clean and fine throughout barring a few minor marks. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), the spine panel heavily toned, with several small nicks, chips and closed tears to extremities with discreet adhesive tape repairs to verso top edge.
The uncommon British edition of Dos Passos’ second volume in his acclaimed USA Trilogy, the first 42nd Parallel (1930) and the third The Big Money (1936), and this published in the same year as the US edition. His British publishers, Constable, who had already published Dos Passos’ still underappreciated Manhattan Transfer (1927), published a single-volume edition of the USA Trilogy in 1938. The standalone editions are uncommon in jacket.
