Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Chosen Country [SIGNED]

Passos, John dos

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First printing. Hardcover. 1/400. Octavo. [8] 485pp. Original orange half cloth over gray cloth with with two vertical, decorative lines in silver on cover, silver lettering on spine; in original black dustjacket with yellow white and red lettering on spine. Signed John dos Passos on limitation page: "A Complimentary Edition for the booksellers of America. This is one of the first 400 copies of Chosen Country to come from the bindery. Each of these 400 copies is autographed by the author."

"Chosen Country is a novel about two people who were meant for each other. Such a marriage is more rare than the screen writers would have us think; and perhaps more common than we might infer from a reading of Louella Parsons. That kind of happy meeting is not made in a single lifetime. To understand it we must turn back the generations and see the making of family tradition and family character." (Publisher).

Dustjacket with light wear along edges, very mall chips and creasing; price-clipped. Binding with minor wear along edges and very lightly sunned along upper and foredge. Block very lightly age-toned with small creases of pages 117 to 122 at lower foredge. Very good condition. Item #55814

Price: $175.00