One Man's Initiation
London: Allen & Unwin, (1920).
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First edition, first issue with type broken on page 35, line 32. A shallow chip to the cloth at the crown, else a very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. A nice copy of the author's first book, preceding the American edition. Dos Passos's impressions of what he saw during the First World War. Scarce.
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John Dos Passos
birth name: John Roderigo Dos Passos
born: 1/14/1896
died: 9/28/1970
Biography
American writer, one of the major novelists of the post-World War I "lost generation," whose reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A.. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore