U. S. A. : I. The 42nd Parallel ; II. Nineteen Nineteen ; III. The Big Money / by John Dos Passos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970, author.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Modern library of the world's best books

The Modern library of the world's best books.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Influence--Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918.

History.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

United States--History--1913-1921--Fiction.

United States--History--1919-1933--Fiction.

United States--History--1865-1921--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii, viii, 415 pages, 1 unnumbered page, iii unnumbered pages-viii, 3-473 pages, 1 unnumbered page, iii unnumbered pages-viii, 3-561 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

United States of America

Forty second parallel

42nd parallel

Nineteen nineteen

Big money

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Library, [1939?].

Contents:

The 42nd Parallel

Nineteen, Nineteen

The Big Money.

Notes:

"The Modern Library is published by Random House, Inc. ..."

"The three novels, 'The 42nd Parallel', 'Nineteen Nineteen' and 'The Big Money' are brought together in one volume, thus fulfilling the author's original intention of making these three panels an integrated literary pattern of contemporary American life."--A Note on the author of "U.S.A."

In The trilogy was first published in a single volume under the title "U.S.A." in 1938 by Harcourt, Brace. For this publication he made considerable revisions in "The 42nd Parallel" by adding a prologue entitled "U.S.A." which in conjunction with "Vag," the last sequence in "Big Money" provides a unifying framing device for the trilogy.

Pagination is not consecutive throughout with removal of each volume's preliminary leaves.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok 1947".

Potok Collection copy has Modern Library Giant binding Style G5 used between 1945-1963. Front cover has red cloth binding with Kent Torchbearer inscribed within an oval. Spine has black panel with double bars stamped in gold at top and bottom, "Modern Library" printed in script and oval of Kent Torchbearer stamped below. Plain white lining papers.

Contains:

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Big money.

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. Nineteen nineteen.

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970. 42nd parallel.

OCLC:

1240102392