John Dos Passos. First edition, stated first printing. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1961. Both unclipped dust jacket (in a mylar wrapper) and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. There is a small piece missing on top of spine. No writing or markings found in the book, 496 pp. jacket design by Samuel Bryant and George Schreiber.
A striking first printing of John Dos Passos’s Midcentury, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1961. Known for his experimental style and incisive social commentary, Dos Passos here turns his eye to postwar America, weaving together politics, industry, and culture in a vivid panorama of the mid–20th century.
This first edition is a collectible piece of American literary history from one of the leading modernist voices of the Lost Generation, author of the acclaimed U.S.A. Trilogy. An excellent addition for collectors of mid-century literature, modernist fiction, and political novels.
