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Lot 63

DREISER, Theodore (1871?1945). The Color of a Great City. N...

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DREISER, Theodore (1871?1945). The Color of a Great City. New York: Boni and Liveright, [1923]. 8vo. Numerous illustrations by C.B. Falls. Original publisher?s gilt?decorated black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (spine sunned, some chipping near head); cloth chemise; morocco?backed slipcase (sunned). Provenance: Earle Bernheimer (bookplate), bibliophile and major collector of Robert Frost (see Parke?Bernet sale, 11 December 1950). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DREISER TO ROBERT A. HICKS. Bruccoli & Clark, p. 159.