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171 - DOS PASSOS, John. *La Grosse Galette* (*Big Money*).
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Estimate €100 - €130
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DOS PASSOS, John. *La Grosse Galette* (*Big Money*). The original French edition on vellum of the third and final instalment of the *U.S.A.* trilogy, a masterful odyssey through the early days of modern America. Paris, Gallimard – ‘Du monde entier’ collection, 1946. Fort in-12, midnight blue half-shagreen, smooth spine, yellow head, covers and spine intact, slipcase. 595 pp. Spine faded with a few fine scratches; a small loss of paper at the top margin of page 7, without affecting the text. French first edition of this novel, translated by Charles de Richter. One of 105 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre pure-fibre vellum (no. LXXII). *La Grosse Galette* is the third and final instalment of the *U.S.A.* trilogy, in which John Dos Passos (1896–1970) masters a simultaneous narrative style that draws on journalism and cinema. He paints a portrait of a modern, gigantic and overwhelming America which, in this instalment, trembles under the blows of the Great Depression of the 1930s. A fine copy.
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