[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Limited Theodore Dreiser's AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Inscribed to Mrs. Claude Bowers

[Charles Agvent]

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DREISER, Theodore. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Inscribed to Mrs. Claude Bowers. 
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Two volumes in original 
cloth-backed blue boards. Copy #68 of 795 sets SIGNED by the author on 
the limitation page. In addition this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by 
the author on the half-title page: "Mrs. Claude (Sybil) Bowers/the 
social & political/advisor to/'Jefferson & Hamilton'/from/Theodore 
Dreiser/N.Y. April- 1926." The book Dreiser alludes to is JEFFERSON AND 
HAMILTON: THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (1925) by Claude Bowers, 
a political manifesto that denounced the Federalist/Whig/Republican 
parties as bastions of aristocracy and hailed the Democrats as true 
heroes. In this book and others Bowers promoted the idea that Thomas 
Jefferson had founded the Democratic Party. President Franklin D. 
Roosevelt, an avid reader of Bowers, built the Jefferson Memorial. Crack 
to text block at limitation page, as often the case; spines slightly 
darkened. Near Fine set in a Very Good, intact slipcase. Uncommon in 
this condition and genuinely scarce when inscribed.

Dreiser based this novel on a true Adirondack story that has also 
inspired plays, an opera, and the film A PLACE IN THE SUN starring 
Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. 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. (#016424)        
$2,000.00

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