[Rarebooks] FS: Association Copy of Dreiser's Homate to New York: MY CITY, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $850 NET

DREISER, Theodore. MY CITY. New York: Horace Liveright, [1929]. First 
Edition. Tall, thin folio (11-1/4" x 15-1/4") in cloth-backed 
wood-grained boards, housed in the original box reproducing the cover of 
the book. Illustrated with eight etchings in color by Max Pollak. 
Dreiser's homage to New York City limited to 275 copies SIGNED by the 
author. This is copy #2 and noted in ink as an "Author's Copy." It is 
also INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page: "For 
Marguerite Harris/with my thanks for/your devoted part/in all 
this/Dreiser/N.Y. Dec 16- 1929." Marguerite Tjader Harris was a 
beautiful writer who was chosen by Dreiser in 1944 to be his creative 
assistant to help him finish THE BULWARK. Harris, a devoted admirer, 
took on the task of helping him finish the novel that would provide a 
financial rescue for the author as well as capping his long, literary 
career. Light spotting to front cover, not atypical for this title. Box 
with edgewear but complete. Near Fine in Good original box and with a 
fine association. (#014371)        $1,500.00

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