"[...]equipment; rows and patches of faces were the only warmth in the desolation of putty-coloured mud and bowed mud-coloured bodies and dripping mud-coloured sky. In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards. Martin rubbed the back of his hand against his face. His skin was like that, too, soft as the petals of flowers, soft and warm amid all this dead mud, amid all this hard mud-covered steel.[...]."
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"[...]equipment; rows and patches of faces were the only warmth in the desolation of putty-coloured mud and bowed mud-coloured bodies and dripping mud-coloured sky. In the cold colourlessness they were delicate and feeble as the faces of children, rosy and soft under the splattering of mud and the shagginess of unshaven beards. Martin rubbed the back of his hand against his face. His skin was like that, too, soft as the petals of flowers, soft and warm amid all this dead mud, amid all this hard mud-covered steel.[...]."
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Add this copy of One Man's Initiation: 1917 to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by Abacus Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsford, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Cornell University Press.
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Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 8vo, 179 pp., Author's first book., "Authorized Edition, Complete and Unexpurgated, With a New Introduction by the Author and Drawings from His Paris Sketchbook, 1918."
Add this copy of One Man's Initiation 1 to cart. $21.14, new condition, Sold by Paperbackshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bensenville, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by HardPress Publishing.
Add this copy of One Man's Initiation: 1917 (Authorized Edition, to cart. $35.00, like new condition, Sold by Sutton Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwich, VT, UNITED STATES, published by Cornell University Press, 1970.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Hbk 12mo, 179pp, reprint of the 1920 edition with a new introduction by the Author, an excellent clean tight and unmarked copy in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as new.
Add this copy of One Man's Initiation to cart. $250.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1920 by Allen & Unwin.
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Very Good. First edition, first issue with type broken on page 35, line 32. A shallow chip to the cloth at the crown, else a very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. A nice copy of the author's first book, preceding the American edition. Dos Passos's impressions of what he saw during the First World War. Scarce.
Add this copy of One Man's Initiation to cart. $2,800.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1920 by George Allen & Unwinn.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. First issue with the word "flat" obliterated on line 32, page 35. Signed by John Dos Passos on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Additionally tipped in is a handwritten signed letter from Dos Passos to the inscribee. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in darker blue. Near Fine with thin fading to cloth at top and bottom edges, short closed marginal tear to page 19/20, this strip of residue to front pastedown likely from a formerly tipped in appendage. In a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly spine toned and with some wear at the spine ends. Housed in a custom clamshell case.
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