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

[Charles Agvent]

DREISER, Theodore:  AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Boni & Liveright New York 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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