John. [The USA Trilogy].

by DOS PASSOS

£4,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Inscribed to Dos Passos's bibliographer DOS PASSOS, John. [The USA Trilogy]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1946. Three volumes, 8vo. Original cream cloth boards; gilt titled spines with brown morocco labels; boards with bevelled edges; illustrated endpapers; top edges gilt; black and white illustrations within the text by Reginald Marsh, pages untrimmed and partially unopened; acetate dust jackets and original dark red slipcase with title label in green and black; slipcase recently repaired; dust jacket panels slightly toned but text body internally fine; overall a near fine set; authorial inscription to front free endpaper of vol. I "To Jack Potter, best wishes, John Dos Passos, Chicago, Oct 31 '54". Signed limited edition, number 279 of 350 sets, inscribed by the writer to his first bibliographer Jack Potter. The USA Trilogy was first published in 1937, in a volume entitled U.S.A . The 42nd Parallel , Nineteen Nineteen , and The Big Money were originally published in 1930, 1932 and 1936 respectively and is the work for which Dos Passos is best known. The trilogy traces the historical evolution of American society during the beginning three decades of the twentieth century in an unusual nonlinear and experimental style, a technique which includes the incorporation of song lyrics (christened "Newsreels") and clippings of newspaper articles collaged beside the stories of multiple fictional narrators. Dos Passos also composed using an autobiographical form of stream of cons

• Binding: Hardcover

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