Author: DREISER, THEODORE
Title: Sister Carrie (Modern Library #8. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, [c.1954]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0883560283. A Modern Library reprint edition of author's novel, first published in 1900. "Sister Carrie" was not promoted by its original publisher (Doubleday & McClure) as they felt its frank subject matter made it too controversial. With a foreword by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 371 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1954 (though 1927 date appears in book). ML #8.2. --- A sound copy: clean and sturdy but with inked underlinings on many leaves and a little discoloration to cloth. Fair only jacket with several tears, creases and chips, price-clipped flap but mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; vii, 557 pages. Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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