John Dos Passos, Signed (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in a Near Fine jacket and slipcase. Number 65 of 300 copies signed by Ludington. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover; bound in navy and red paper with silver lettering. DJ is grey/green with a photograph and black lettering. Good condition; a tear at the crown on the back cover and some chipping & rubbing to the dust jacket, corners bumped. Title and copyright page dated 1973, stated first printing. Signed by Betty Dos Passos on the title page. Previous owners name on the first free endpaper. 662 pages. Pages are clean, free of any writings or markings. Please contact us with questions or if you d like to see photographs. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing, First Edition. Once listed, I believe this will be the Only signed trade edition. There was a signed Limited Edition and a number of those copies are for sale. Here, the signed inscription is on the half-title page. It reads: 'August 24, 1974, To the Coles, Dos needs loyal supporters like us all. Many thanks for your interest-- Best Always, Towny.' Towny was Townsend's nickname. 'Dos' was Dos Passos'. You can see the covers in the photos. They have some dust staining on the blue part of the front and rear cover. The silver lettering on the front the gilt lettering on the spine are both nicely bright. The cover edges are in very good shape, no rubbing. Same thing with the corners. There is a speck of a spot on the red part of the front cover and two such specks on the red part of the rear cover. The top page edge is red. The page edges look good. The middle one has some very light spotting. The spine has a moderate rearward lean. There is also a moderate-sized space between the top part of the spine and the textblock. This creates a little bit of puffiness around the top edge of the spine. The spine ends have just the lightest bit of crinkling. The signed page has some light spotting off its bottom and middle edges, mostly around the bottom corner (see photo). I don't see any of that anywhere else in the book, nothing on the rear end paper. When you look down at the middle page edge you will notice a little swerve just off the bottom edge. It doesn't cause any creasing on the pages, but you'll notice the bottom corners are a very slightly turned upward, not enough to have caused a crease to occur. There is an unrelated and fairly light bottom corner crease between pages 599 and 632. I'm not finding any top corner creases. There are no placeholder creases. The inside covers and end papers are red. They are very clean. The paper of the rear inside cover extends a tiny bit beyond the rear covers middle edge. If you are handy you could trim it. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The covers do bow out very slightly. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I'm not discovering any soiling. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And Mr. Ludington's signed inscription is the only writing to be found anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It is very clean. The front and rear are a light green. The spine appears to have been sunned to a silver color. The jacket has a moderate amount of wear, a tiny chip and a few very small tears off the top edge of the spine, a tiny chip off the bottom edge of the spine, a thin tear off the front bottom edge just adjacent to the spine, a tiny tear off the front top edge, a little crinkling around the edges. The flaps are in pretty good shape. They are clean. There are two creases below the rear flap's top corner, one below the front flap's top corner. The jacket will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. An Uncorrected Proof in red printed wrappers. Rubbing to the spine, and staining to the page edges. Author Arthur Mizener's copy, with a signed note from publicist Cynthia M. Shaler laid in. Mizener wrote the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1951, which was credited with reviving interest in Fitzgerald. ; 643 pages.

No Binding. Condition: VG. Sized about 3.25 x 5.5 inches, on card stock, very clean and bright: "To / Mike Schau / Cordial Regards / John Dos Passos / 1/19/65.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Slip-Case. Large 8vo. pp xvi, 662. Original publisher's cream cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Limited edition of 300 copies, this being no. 125 and signed by Townsend Ludington. ISBN: 0876450737 Fine in about fine dust jacket and near fine slip-case. Excellent condition. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Copy number 10 of 15 presentation copies (of a total run of 365 copies). This copy inscribed to Alan Becker and signed by Jack Potter, dated January 24, 1950. Alan Becker was a major supporter, fundraiser, and consultant to the San Francisco arts community. Fore edge uncut. Some fraying to top of spine, some scuffs to rear cover, else very good. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition, Limited, number 8 of 15 copies printed for presentation, and SIGNED by Jack Potter "For Captain Louis Henry Cohn [.] In grateful appreciation [etc.] With an introduction by John Dos Passos. -- Cohn was the noted bookseller, publisher, Hemingway bibliographer. -- Hardcover, 365 total copies, printed by the Norman Press. Condition: near fine (bookplate; spine crown bumped).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. clean, solid, staple bound, staples a bit rusty, light damp stains, signed by editor, from the collection of John Barth (marked with a stamp on front cover). KRM/Signed nonfiction. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Collectible; Very Good. 1st. A nice Presentation copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JACK POTTER TO MAXWELL GEISMAR, pre-eminent mid 20th century literary critic and biographer. The 1950 1st edition. Solid and VG in its brown cloth, with light fading along the spine and light soiling at the front panel. Octavo, 95 pgs., 1 of 365 copies isssued. Signed by Author. Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Photos (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED by the Author on a tipped-in front endpaper, thick small quarto (9 1/2" x 6 2/8"), gray cloth with black label & gold lettering on spine and "Mainstream of America" with tiny stars on front cover, ilustrated with 32 B&W photographs from the period & map endpapers, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting President Wilson waving from a parade car as drawn by Hugh Baker, 2 colored map endpapers: The War in Europe & Western Front, viii + 517 pages. 2 lbs. 1 oz. John Dos Passos (1896 - 1970) was a major American novelist of the post-World War I "Lost Generation." His writings are often characterized by social criticism of American life. He best known for his trilogy U.S.A. In MR. WILSON'S WAR, Dos Passos passes in brilliant critical review the 20-year period from the assissination of President McKinley to the defeat of the League of Nations. He places special emphasis on shy, academic Woodrow Wilson. During this time the Great War was won; the Great Hoped-for Peace lost. SUPERIOR COPY: tight, bright, clean with light uniform age-toning. No internal marks, annotations, or remainder marks. Printing not indicated. Bright unclipped dust jacket with a 1-inch V at the top of the rear panel and slight wear at its edges (most evident at the foot of the dj's spine.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 78, [2]pp. Stapled printed orange wrappers. Slight offsetting on titlepage and a little toning on the wrappers, dampstain in the lower margins of the spine, very good. Adaptation staged and directed by Shyre from Dos Passos' trilogy of novels. Inscribed by Shyre to Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes: "To Marian, with love, Paul. 8 / 1963.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 94, [2]. Signed and inscribed by Dos Passos to his editor Lovell Thompson on free front endpaper: "For Lovell & K- When you get sick of it you can turn it over to the research dep't of Houghton Mifflin - it's gotten up by a very nice young guy in Chicago who seems to have done a good job. Yrs ever, Dos." Limited edition (#12/365). Brown cloth with gilt spine titling and Dos Passos facsimile signature on upper board, deckle edge. Includes Addenda of periodical articles tipped in on recto of final leaf. Boards have mostly light edge and corner wear and some rubbing, with two indentations at top of upper board. Glue from Addenda has bled through onto verso of final leaf.A unique association copy. Dos Passos was called "Dos" by his friends, and often signed books to them in this manner. Thompson, who was head of HM's trade division for most of the 42 years he spent there, was called a "brilliant conceptualizer" by his colleagues upon his passing. In addition to Dos Passos, he worked with Bernard DeVoto, Anya Seton, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. In his introduction to this volume, Dos Passos reflects that "It's hard to imagine what anybody could possibly say to introduce a volume of bibliography . listing his own works. It's like asking a man to engrave the plate on his coffin after he's been laid away in it by the undertaker.".

xi, 662 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition, Number 63 of 270 copies, signed by the Editor. Each contains a frontispiece reproduction in color of the portrait of John Dos Passos by Harold Weston. xi, 662 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. cream clothg. Fine in fine dust jacket and black slipcase, as issued First edition, Number 63 of 270 copies, signed by the Editor. Each contains a frontispiece reproduction in color of the portrait of John Dos Passos by Harold Weston. Signed.

Dos Passos (illustrator). First Edition. Small 4to, pp. 156. Set in Linotype Bodoni and printed from the original types. The Illustrations are reproduced by the photogelatine process by four-color separation. One of 300 copies, printed on Utopian Laid paper, numbered and signed by Cendars and Dos Passos. Bound in plain paper wraps with illustrated paper dust jacket. Some toning to the cover, lacks the top 1/2 inch of the spine some wear at the bottom. A very good copy.

Hardcover. A collection of books from the estate of Beulah Appleton, second wife of Dos Passos' close friend Walter Rumsey Marvin (who was known to Dos Passos as "Rum" or "Rummy"). Many of the books are inscribed to both "Rummy" and either his first wife Betsy or his second wife Beulah (known as "B."), and/or their daughter Miranda. Dos Passos met Marvin, four years his junior, in 1915 when both were traveling to California; for Dos Passos it was a respite from his mother's recent death and before he began his senior year at Harvard. Coincidentally, they ran into each other on several legs of the trip, including at the Grand Canyon, and Dos Passos began a friendship, and soon thereafter a correspondence, both of which continued for the rest of his life. Marvin appears, and his correspondence with Dos Passos (now largely at the University of Virginia) is referenced repeatedly in Townsend Ludington's biography: *John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey* (Dutton, 1980). Marvin was not a collector per se and condition varies, but most are first editions, and most are in very good condition, but further details of edition and condition on the list below. Books Signed (and mostly by) John Dos Passos: 1. *Eight Harvard Poets* New York: Laurence J. Gomme 1917. First edition. Ownership signature of Rumsey Marvin on front fly, some wear on the paper covered boards, very good. Anthology includes poems by Dos Passos. E.E. Cummings, Robert Hillyer, and others. Inscribed on the title page "for Rummy, John Dos Passos." 2. *One Man's Initiation* 1917. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (1920) First English, and true first, edition, preceding the U.S. edition. Spine sunned else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed "to Rummy with love from Jack, October 28, 1920." 3. *One Man's Initiation* 1917. New York: George H. Doran 1922. First American edition. Spine label toned and light wear, very good or better lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed: "A long time ago, yrs Dos." 4. *One Man's Initiation*. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1969). Authorized and unexpurgated edition. With new introduction by the author and drawings from his Paris sketchbook. Fine in about fine dust jacket. Inscribed" "To Rummy this dates back to the days that only you remember when I had a head of hair yours, Dos." 5. *Three Soldiers* New York: George H. Doran (1921). First edition. Short tear at the crown, moderate overall wear, about very good lacking the dusatwrapper. With Marvin's ownership name in pencil and Inscribed in ink: "for Rummy, John Dos Passos." 6. *Rosinante* New York: George H. Doran (1922). First edition. Rumsey Marvin's penciled ownership signature, some toning and a small spot on front board, very good lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed "for Rummy, John Dos Passos." 7. *A Pushcart at the Curb* New York: George H. Doran (1922). First edition. Corners a bit bumped and rubbed, very good. Inscribed "for Mrs. Marvin, Jack, Pittsburgh November 1922." 8. *Manhattan Transfer* New York: Harper & Brothers 1925. First edition. Book a little cocked, spine-label chipped, good or better lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed "for the Marvins on E 95th Street, a little before Christmas, Yours Dos." 9. *The Garbage Man: A Parade with Shouting* New York: Harper & Brothers 1926. First edition. Backstrip lacking, else sound and good. Inscribed "Betsy's & Rummy's copy, Love Dos." 10. *Orient Express* New York: Harper & Brothers 1927. First edition. Old owner's stamp on title page, light wear on the boards, very good lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed "to Rummy and B, affectionately Jack (John Dos Passos)." 11. *Airways, Inc.* New York: Macaulay (1928). First edition. Near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed: "Betsy's & Rummy's book, Love Dos." 12. *42nd Parallel* New York: Harper and Brothers 1930. First edition. Small chip at the crown else very good in a tattered, good only dust jacket. Inscribed "for Mrs. Walter Rumsey Marvin Jr. with the sincere compliments of John Dos Passos." 13. (Cendrars, Blaise). Translated and illustrated by John Dos Passos. *Panama* New York: Harper & Brothers 1931. First edition, trade issue. Small quarto. Color pictorial wrapper covers. Near fine in chipped original glassine. Inscribed "Betsy's and Rummy's copy ou sont les neiges d'autour, J.D.P." [translation: "Where is the snow around here?"]. 14. *1919* New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1932). First edition. Near fine in moderately worn very good dust jacket with small chips. Inscribed "Betsy and Rummy's copy, John Dos Passos." 15. *In All Countries* New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1934). First edition. Slight toning on the spine, very good in moderately chipped good dust jacket. Inscribed "And back again: this is Betsy's and Rummy's book JDP." 16. *Three Plays* New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1934). First edition. Some soiling and light staining on the boards, very good lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed "Betsy and Rummy's copy Love Dos." 17. *The Big Money*. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1936). First edition. Near fine in a worn good dust jacket with chipping at the spine. Inscribed "for Betsy and Rummy. Salute! Dos." 18. *Journeys Between Wars* New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1938). First edition. Spine lettering rubbed else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed "for Betsy and Rummy on their graduation also Happy Easter, John Dos Passos. New York. April 9 -38." 19. *Adventures of a Young Man* New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1939). First edition. Near fine in a worn about good dust jacket with chipping at the spine. Inscribed "for Betsy and Rummy, Love Dos. Dec. 1939." 20. *The Ground We Stand On* New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1941). Second printing. Very good without dust jacket. Very good without dust jacket. Inscribed by Rumsey Marvin to a relative: "Lucile M. Marvin from Rumsey - Dos Passos a friend of Rumsey's." 21. *The Ground We Stand On* New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1.