Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser, Reginald Marsh (illustrator) 1939 - The Limited Editions Club, New York - First Edition illustrated by Marsh, Number 1194 of 1500 copies. A handsomely bound limited edition, signed by the illustrator, with an introduction by Burton Rascoe and illustrated throughout from crayon drawings by Reginald Marsh

Banned on publication for its questionable morals,
Sister Carrie is the great American novel of seduction, a masterpiece of insight into appetite and innocence.

Long before she was seduced by the cautious and ordinary man whose life she would unravel with no malice and only intermittent interest, the young Carrie Meeber was seduced by the promise of the city–its vitality and reckless possibility, the thrill of material luxury, and the spectacle of power and industry.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time.
  ‘Such a novel as Sister Carrie stands quite outside the brief traffic of the customary stage. It leaves behind an inescapable impression of bigness, of epic sweep and dignity. It is not a mere story, not a novel in the customary American meaning of the word; it is at once a psalm of life and a criticism of life. . . . [Dreiser’s] aim is not merely to tell a tale; his aim is to show the vast ebb and flow of forces which sway and condition human destiny. The thing he seeks to do is to stir, to awaken, to move. One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.’ – H. L. Mencken.

‘Theodore Dreiser is a man who, with the passage of time, is bound to loom larger and larger in the awakening aesthetic consciousness of America. Among all of our prose writers he is one of the few men of whom it may be said that he has . . . never been a trickster. If there is a modern movement in American prose writing, a movement toward greater courage and fidelity to life in writing, Theodore Dreiser is the pioneer and the hero of the movement.’ – Sherwood Anderson.

References: Bill Majure,
LEC Checklist, 110. Penguin Random House.

Quarto (binding size 27.1X17.5cm), pp. [4] xiv [2] 387 [7].
  Elegantly bound in full black morocco, spine ruled, decortaed and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.   Condition: Fine in fine binding   Ref: 110132   Price: HK$ 4,000