John Dos Passos, Chosen Country, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951, first outlet edition, With Author's Inscription/Signature

Midcentury Novel -- Chosen Country, John Dos Passos, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951, first edition, With Author's Inscription/Signature

Signed just two years before his death -- "For Mary Healy. Cordial Regards. John Dos Passos, Glen Rock, 9/24/68"

No dust jacket. Black ink mark on back cloth cover. Green and orange cloth. Some aging on pages consistent with age. Binding tight.

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John Roderigo Dos Passos (/dɒsˈpæsəs, -sɒs/;[1][2] January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy.

Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. outlet During World War I, he was an ambulance driver for American volunteer groups in Paris and Italy before joining the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

In 1920, his first novel, One Man's Initiation: 1917, was published, and in 1925, his novel Manhattan Transfer became a commercial success. His U.S.A. trilogy, which consists of the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936), was ranked by the Modern Library in 1998 as 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Written in experimental, non-linear form, the trilogy blends elements of biography and news reports to paint a landscape of early 20th-century American culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dos_Passos