[Rarebooks] FS: Dreiser's Autobiography Inscribed to his wife's confidant & builder of his financial albatross

[Charles Agvent]

DREISER,  Theodore.  DAWN: A HISTORY OF MYSELF. New  York:  Horace
Liveright  (1931).  First  Trade Edition, there was a  limited  signed
edition  of  275 copies. This copy is INSCRIBED for Ralph Fabri  "love
included"  and  SIGNED  by  Dreiser  in May  of  1931  (The  book  was
published  May 8.). Fabri was a Hungarian painter who was commissioned
to  paint  a portrait of Dreiser's wife Helen in 1929 and  who  became
Helen's  confidant  as  she  poured out her  troubles  over  Dreiser's
womanizing.  Fabri, who became a lifelong friend of both Dreisers, was
eventually  put in charge of supervising the construction of Dreiser's
monstrous  home,  Iroke,  that would prove to be an albatross  to  the
writer  in his later, more difficult financial years. Some sunning  to
the  spine  which has minor wear at the head. Very Good,  lacking  the
dustwrapper.                                                  $1500.00

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