TWELVE MEN

New York: Boni & Liveright. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. OCLC: "In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives combine the best attributes of the character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into miniature masterpieces of prose...."First edition bound in blue cloth with cloth spine a bit worn and loosening - light foxing to endpages and private library bookplate. Otherwise internally bright with crisp facsimile dust jacket. .