"… You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00 …"

Autograph Letter Signed ("Theodore Dreiser"), to Philadelphia bookseller Jeremiah F. Cullen.

Los Angeles: December 20, 1914.

Price: $1,250.00


About the item

1 p. 8vo. "… You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00 …" Bifolium. Light marginal soiling, folding crease.

Item #308565

Dreiser writes a Philadelphia bookseller to request a copy of the first edition of his most important novel, Sister Carrie (1900). "Dear Sir: A letter dated Nov. and addressed to me at 165 W. 10th St. reaches me only now … You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00. If you still have it will you forward it & I will send you my check …." Cullen began selling books in Philadelphia in 1877 and opened his own shop, Cullen’s Bookstore, in 1906, at 9th and Walnut Streets.