The Financier

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.

Price: $450.00

Hardcover. Revised edition, and first edition issued by this publisher. Spine soiled and a bit darkened, good plus without dustwrapper. Important editor and critic Dwight Macdonald's copy with his bookplate ("Dwight Macdonald Junior"). Macdonald has made a number of slightly insouciant marginal critical notations in pencil in the text. The original edition was rushed into print in 1912 to fulfill Dreiser's contractual obligations. When he signed on with this publisher he insisted on completely rewriting the novel.

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Item #335183 The Financier. Theodore DREISER.
The Financier
The Financier
The Financier

Theodore Dreiser
birth name: Theodore Dreiser
born: 8/27/1871
died: 12/28/1945
nationality: USA

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Biography

Novelist who was the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. He led a national literary movement that replaced a Victorian sense of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Dreiser's first book Sister Carrie (1900) is a scarce first edition, particularly in fine condition. There was once talk of a copy known in dustjacket, but the source of the jacket was highly questionable, and if you are offered a jacketed copy of the first edition, little alarm bells should begin to sound in your fevered brain. One might exist, but we've never seen one that we trusted, nor has any bookseller that we trust. His other early books such as his second novel, Jennie Gerhardt (1911) or The Financier (1912) are very uncommon in jacket, but at least we know they had valid jackets. His two volume An American Tragedy (1925) comes in both a limited and signed issue, as well as a trade issue (which comes in dustjackets and a cardboard box). Both are desirable, but we kind of like the trade issue better because we have an addiction to dustjackets.

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