Nineteen Nineteen (With an Original 2 Pg. Ink Drawing by Reginald Marsh)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1946 re-issue of the second installment (originally published in 1932) of Dos Passos's formidable "USA" trilogy. THIS COPY INCLUDES A LAVISH 2 PG ORIGINAL INK DRAWING FROM ITS ILLUSTRATOR (THE FIRST-RANK PAINTER REGINALD MARSH) OF A FRENCH SOLDIER AND A WOMAN AT A TABLE HAILING A WINE-BEARING WAITER. A solid, well-preserved copy to boot. Clean and VG+ in its oatmeal cloth, with very mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, 545 pgs., generously illustrated thruout by Reginald Marsh himself. (From the collection of Barbara Adrian {1931-2014}, American painter and long-time instructor at the Art Students League in New York). Signed by Illustrator.