First UK edition, first impression (published a year earlier in the United States under the title Forgotten Frontiers: Dreiser and the Land of the Free). 486pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, marked and mildly creased along a sunned spine. Text block edges dust dulled. Hint of toning to sightly marked endpapers and in extreme page margins in places, else internally neat, clean, and tight.
The first substantial biography of American writer Theodore Dreiser, written with the co-operation of Dreiser and his friends.
