Lot 206
Lot 206
The Financier

Theodore Dreiser, 1912

Price Realised USD 2,750
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The Financier

Theodore Dreiser, 1912

Price Realised USD 2,750
Price Realised USD 2,750
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The Financier
Theodore Dreiser, 1912
DREISER, Theodore (1871-1945). The Financier. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1912.

First edition in dust jacket of Dreiser's classic chronicle of American ambition. The Financier was the first volume in his trilogy of big city American business and politics which follows the rise and fall (and rise again) of Frank Algernon Cowperwood. Rare in dust jacket: ABPC records only four copies. McDonald 4.

Octavo. Original cloth (spine just a touch toned); printed dust jacket (restoration to spine panel ends, adjacent areas of panels, and flap folds); custom box. Provenance: “John K. M” (partially removed label to rear end paper).
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