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“AS CLOSE TO THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL AS ANYONE”: FIRST EDITIONS OF DOS PASSOS’ U.S.A. TRILOGY, 1919 INSCRIBED AND 42ND PARALLEL SIGNED BY DOS PASSOS

DOS PASSOS, John. U.S.A. Trilogy. The 42nd Parallel. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. WITH: 1919. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1932). WITH: The Big Money. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1936). Three volumes. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jackets.

First editions of the three titles of Dos Passos’ U.S.A. Trilogy, with 1919 inscribed, “To Tom Smith, Cordially, John Dos Passos,” and 42nd Parallel signed “John Dos Passos.”

Critic Malcolm Cowley called the three novels in John Dos Passos’ monumental U.S.A., with their intersecting stories, the “most impressive and possibly the best American work in the naturalistic tradition.” To Norman Mailer, Dos Passos’ “trilogy on America came as close to the Great American novel as anyone.” Bruccoli & Clark I, 101.

Books fine, bright dust jackets extremely good with light edge-wear and chipping to spine panels. A highly desirable literary classic, signed and inscribed.