[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Dreiser

[Charles Agvent]

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DREISER, Theodore. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. New York: Boni & Liveright
1925.  First  Edition.  Two  volumes  in  original  cloth-backed  blue
boards.  Copy  #535  of 795 sets SIGNED by the author.  Dreiser  based
this  novel  on a true Adirondack story that has also inspired  plays,
an  opera, and the film A PLACE IN THE SUN. In July 1906, a young  man
took  his pregnant girlfriend boating on Big Moose Lake. The next  day
her  body was found floating in a secluded cove. The murder weapon--an
antique  tennis  racket--was lost for many years after the  conviction
of  the  murderer  and  only   recently  rediscovered  in  June  2006.
Bookplate  of  Myron  B. Oppenheimer on the front  pastedown  of  each
volume.  Near  Fine  set,  lacking  the  slipcase.  Uncommon  in  this
condition.                                                     $950.00

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