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One Man's Initiation: 1917
by dos passos, john
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. "Authorized Edition, Complete and Unexpurgated, With a New Introduction by the Author and Drawings from His Paris Sketchbook, 1918." "First Published 1969." Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 179 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped, slight age-toning, chip at base of rear panel, shallow chipping at base of spine, 1-1/2" closed tear near top front spine fold; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Here, published for the first time as he wrote it at the age of twenty-two, is John Dos Passos' first book. An autobiographical novel, impressionistic in style, it is noteworthy for its colorful descriptions of France during World War I and for its passionate indictment of war..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30775
- Title
- One Man's Initiation: 1917
- Author
- dos passos, john
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca, NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION, JOHN DOS PASSOS, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, WORLD WAR I, PARIS, 1917
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War I;
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