Theodore Dreiser Portrait

by Carl Van Vechten

$300 · Offered by Second Story Books

1933. A 7” x 9” silver gelatin photograph of author Theodore Dreiser taken by Carl Van Vechten. Very good, with slight vertical curling along margins. Van Vechten’s embossed name appears in the lower right hand of the photograph, and his stamp on the verso. Captioned in Van Vechten’s hand on the verso: THEODORE DREISER / November 8, 1933 with the number of the negative xvp:37. Portrait of Dreiser from the chest up, in an apparently

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