Dos Passos Don (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Number 5. Octavo. 91pp. Illustrated with a portrait of Cummings by Harry Dunham. Printed wrappers over stapled textblock. Wrappers with a tanned spine, moderate soil, and a tiny stain on the lower wrap, very good and sound. The text is fine. Prints three pieces by Cummings, as well as appreciations by Don dos Passos, Marianne Moore, Fairfield Porter, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, and others. Also notable for containing Robert Creeley's first published poem, "Return.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is part of the 'Travellers Library' series of books, number 80. / This is the authors a memoirs of his travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or character. Dos Passos applies his instincts as a painter to mountain ranges and grimy alleyways, finding beauty everywhere. His tour extends from Tiflis, Georgia, to Erivan, Armenia, and Marrakesh, Morocco; from Kasvin, Iran, to Baghdad, Iraq, and Damascus, Syria. He crosses the Syrian Desert, observes the aftermath of the Greek-Turkish War, climbs the Caucasus, explores Persia during the rise of Reza Kahn, and records the creation of Iraq by the British. / This is a British 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the dustjacket is a little scratched&the spine slightly faded. (224 pages & 30 pages of book advertisments). Originally published in the U.S.A in 1927.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Sm8vo. viii, [2] 3-561pp. Very good minus book in fair dust jacket. First edition; book includes reprints from several publications. Bright blue cloth coward with silver gilt-stamped lettering on front panel and spine. Boards are clean and lightly scuffed. Spine is sunned. Edges at head and tail of board spine are softened and crimped. Tiny bump on the lower front fore-edge corner. Minimal scuffs on fore-edge corner tips. External page edges are age-soiled. Several pages have small dog-eared corners. Text pages are clean and text block is solid. Dust jacket is soiled overall. Spine and extremities are sunned. Significant losses at head and tail of jacket spine and fore-edge corners. All folds are creased and with several rub-throughs and losses. Upper and lower edges are rubbed, creases and with closed tears. All inside flap corners have been clipped, however price of $2.50 is intact on the front and back inside flaps. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.