First Encounter
New York: Philosophical Library, (1945).
Price: $35.00
Hardcover. Reprint of the author's first novel, *One Man's Initiation*, and the first edition with this title, and a new introduction by the author. End papers browned, and a bit offset on the flaps, else near fine in attractive, very good dustwrapper with some offsetting on the front panel, and light edgewear. One of 2000 copies.
Item #87383
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