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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. First Edition, in two volumes with dust jackets, housed together as issued in the publisher's illustrated slipcase. Basis for the stunning, bleak 1951 film noir "A Place in the Sun," directed by George Stevens and starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Theodore Dreiser's first novel in a decade at the time, a scathing indictment of the American dream, bringing him to the zenith of his critical and commercial success. Both volumes Near Fine. Dust jacket for Volume 1 is Very Good, bright and clean but with a chip at the top of the rear panel. Dust jacket for Volume 2 is Near Fine. In a lightly worn, Very Good plus example of the original slipcase. Dust jacket of the first volume has small chips on the rear panel and spine ends, but is otherwise intact. All told, an exceptional set. Johnson, The Dark Page, Volume 1, pp. 44-45.