"This is a sound, very full, altogether welcome biography of one of the strangest careers in American letters." -- Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review "Ludington's fine, sweeping study . . . shows in full color Dos Passos the paradox, the self-contradiction, the eccentric of such proportions that the mere facts of his life would make arresting reading even if he had no particular genius." -- Washington Post Book World
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"This is a sound, very full, altogether welcome biography of one of the strangest careers in American letters." -- Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review "Ludington's fine, sweeping study . . . shows in full color Dos Passos the paradox, the self-contradiction, the eccentric of such proportions that the mere facts of his life would make arresting reading even if he had no particular genius." -- Washington Post Book World
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: Large 8vo 9"-10; Stated First Edition, First Printing, bound handsomely in a big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format, two-tone blue and white cloth, silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond light edgewear along top edge and a short closed tear there, protected by a plastic coat. Long range of black-and-white photographs. Table of Contents shows: Novels 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917 (1), Three Soldiers (87), Manhattan Transfer (477); Chronology (841), Note on the Texts (859), Notes (862). Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xx [1], 2-568 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book (xx) 568 pages, b/w photos, notes and sources, acknowledgments, index, 8vo; navy/white cloth. Very good condition, top edge lightly spotted; very good dust jacket.