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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1954]. Hardcover. A hefty Modern Library reprint edition offering the three novels by John Dos Passos, collectively known as "U.S.A." (trilogy) in a single volume and first published together in 1938. The works are notable, among other things, for being written from multiple perspectives. --- In Toledano spine G5 / rust cloth / gilt titling & ML torchbearer on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / blank GA endpapers / jacket style Gd / verso advertises 371 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1954 (though 1937 date appears in book). ML #G44.1. --- Loosened front and rear hinges have been repaired on this item; with chafing to cloth at spine ends and mild age-toning to leaves, else an unmarked, sound copy. Fair-only, unpriced dust jacket with numerous tears and chips, detached (but present) rear flap & nearly detached front flap; otherwise mostly intact, bright and protected in new… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin, 1946. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Houghton Mifflin Company (The Riverside Press); Boston, 1946. Hardcover. Complete 3 Volume Set. A Good, grey cloth binding with red lettering on front board and spines, binding intact, starting hinges, heavily sunned spines, crimping to spine edges, some scattered foxing to board margin buckram and text block edges, bit of age toning to pages, rubbing along board edges, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, mild biblichor, without Dust wrapper. A good, overall clean and unmarked set. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches].,(The Big Money) 645pp., (The 42nd Parallel) 481pp., (Nineteen Nineteen) 545pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Illustrated Edition. Trade issue. Three octavo volumes; (23.5cm.); uniformly bound in cloth in paper-covered slipcase with printed wrap-around paper label; illus. Gentle, uniform toning to spine cloth, else a tight, unworn set, free of markings or notable wear. In the original slipcase, rubbed, with wear and faint staining at edges; just Very Good. There was a simultaneous signed, limited issue of 365 copies. Dos Passos' sweeping experimental trilogy, a literary portrait of American life during the first thirty years of the 20th century, following the lives of six men and six women from disparate social and professional groups. COAN, p. 82; HANNA 1022, 1025, & 1021.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946. Hardcover. Each volume has a discreet owner's blind stame else all volumes are near new condition, covers bright, texts clean and bindings tight in like dust jackets which are now in clear protective mylar sleeves.. Three volumes,

Houghton Mifflin Company. All three volumes spine darkened in rough original slip case. Internally about fine. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1947.

Houghton Mifflin, 1946. Limited Numbered First Illustrated Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome 3-volume set of John Dos Passos' classic trilogy in the scarce Limited Numbered First Illustrated Edition signed by the author and the artist, Reginald Marsh, on the limitation page in the first volume ["The 42nd Parallel"] and numbered 370 of 375 [Original issue of 365 plus 10 additional for family and friends]. Bound in cream buckram with pictorial "USA" endpapers, gilt titling on leather labels on the front and spine, with rough cut pages and gold gilt on the top edge of each volume. Overall each is a very solid and square book, with touches of soil and darkening to the spine and pages, a previous owners blue stamp on an early page in each volume (but not the limitation page] but with clean interiors. A stunning and scarce set.

One of 365 three volume sets signed by the author and illustrator. Hardcover, bound in cloth. Spines discolored. Lacks slipcase.

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Special Edition, 166 of 365. Hardcover. Set condition is Very Good, bound in full tan cloth and illustrated end pages. Some bumps to corners of boards. Slight scuffing and edge wear to exteriors. Texts are clean and unmarked. Ilustrated throughout. 8vo. 9 1/2"h x 6 1/4"w. This especially bound edition of the first printing of the illustrated U.S.A. is limited to 365 sets autographed by the author and artist, this is number 166.