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193431640Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1934. First Edition. 8vo publisher's original bright blue cloth with gilt laurel leaves on the upper cover in gilt within a blind embossed series of panels the spine gilt lettered with blind embossed rules; in the original colour pictorially decorated dustjacket. 452 pp. A handsome and well preserved copy the text is quite fine clean and fresh the cloth bright with vivid gilt essentially without wear but with a little mellowing to the colour at the head of the spine. The jacket is uncommon and is also well preserved just a touch of fading at the spine panel and with some expected edgewear a few closed tears have been neatly repaired on the verso. FIRST EDITION SINCLAIR LEWIS IN DUSTJACKET. This book was quite well produced for a Depression Era printing and has thus survived much better than is typical for American books of the '30s. In this "living pageant of our times" Lewis presents the unending American pursuit of perfection and success through a multigenerational family of hoteliers. As we follow them from a tiny rural guest house to one of the largest hotels in the world we are shown a great panorama of America filled with both sympathy and vitriol. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover
1992DADAX1563380404UNKNO 1992-01-01. paperback. New. 5.75x0.75x8.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. UNKNO paperback
004487Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 1844 with 43 county maps all with outline colour folding plan of London and a large folding general map of England. This copy with 2 extra maps bound in map of Lancashire and Yorkshire railwayand large folding map of canals and railways Lancaster and York 1847both with contemporary colour spine chipped at ends title loose content in very good unmarked state. <br/> <br/> hardcover
2022x-3031162579Springer Nature 2022. Hardcover. New. 308 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.83 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
002936Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 4to 2 vols. text with atlas vol . containing 6 very large folding maps all coloured in outline 2nd. edn. 1851. Very good clean crisp copies in publishers ribbed cloth <br/> <br/> hardcover
1259859614New. Brand new and still unused unknown
2019__1259859614McGraw-Hill 2019. Hardcover. New. 11 edition. 2070 pages. 11.00x8.75x2.50 inches. McGraw-Hill hardcover
1927355490717718London: Cape 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's mid-blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine and Cape logo blind-stamped to the back board. Dark-blue top edge. Offsetting to both sets of end-papers other wise a VG/near fine copy in like 7/6 net D/W with just a hint of spine fade. A nicer copy than normally seen of this iconic book and the basis for the movie of the same name directed by Richard Brooks and starring Burt Reynolds Jean Simmons and Arthur Kennedy which won three Oscars. Photographs/scans available upon request. A very nice copy indeed. Cape hardcover
193734364Chicago: At the Lakeside Press for Members of the Limited Editions Club 1937. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. This is one of 1500 hand-numbered copies signed by Grant Wood. With nine colour plates printed in soft hues and sepia tones from drawings by Grant Wood. 4to in the original flexible gray-blue linen the spine and upper cover stamped in yellow and blue in the original rarely retained glassine wrapper and publisher's tan paper-covered slipcase with gray paper label printed in blue. xvii 367 1 pp. The book is in very fine condition essentially pristine and as new the slipcase solid and strong and nearly without wear though there is a bit to the paper label and some fading to the blue-on-gray lettering as is always the case only the rare glassine wrapper has wear and this includes chipping to the edges and some loss to the glassine. LIMITED EDITION OF SINCLAIR LEWIS' MASTERPIECE WITH NINE PROVOCATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRANT WOOD WHO HAS SIGNED THE EDITION OF ONLY 1500 COPIES.<br> MAIN STREET is a highly important American novel satirizing small-town life in the early 20th century. It is important for a number of reasons — among them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist and what one might now call feminist themes. Highly acclaimed upon publication it led in part to Lewis' eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. MAIN STREET was also awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature but was rejected by the Board of Trustees who overturned the jury's decision. The prize went instead to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for ARROWSMITH.<br> Grant Wood was an exceptional choice to provide illustrations for Main Steet being best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest such as "American Gothic" an iconic work of early 20th-century American art and one of the most famous American paintings of all time. Several of the illustrations are portraits of Gopher Prairie's inhabitants. At the Lakeside Press for Members of the Limited Editions Club unknown
192030367New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe 1920. First edition with 49 perfect folio 54 complete and unbattered and the “y†in may imperfect. 8vo publisher’s original blue cloth with orange lettering panels on the spine and upper cover lettered in blue and ruled in orange. 8 451 pp. A very handsome copy very well preserved tight and in pleasing condition at the extremities. The cloth is dark and clean but for a bit of age to the rear cover the orange panels and lettering are complete and especially fresh and well preserved some old tape residue at the rear pastedown. Overall a pleasing and very collectable copy. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE 20TH CENTURY. A HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED COPY. MAIN STREET is important for a number of reasons — among them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist and what one might now call feminist themes by a male writer. MAIN STREET was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature but was rejected by the Board of Trustees who overturned the jury's decision. The prize went instead to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for ARROWSMITH. Harcourt, Brace and Howe hardcover
193751015N.P.: Privately printed n.d. ca 1937. 1937. First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers 61 pp. frontis. double column stapled. Six Guns 580 says "This interesting and little-known book contains material on the Taylor-Sutton feud the hanging of Bill Longley and the capture and killing of John Wesley Hardin as well as many other crimes in Texas." The author was at one time Chief of the Austin Detective Bureau Austin Texas and in this booklet tells of his years of experiences as a Texas Ranger. Fine unread copy. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. Privately printed, n.d. (ca 1937). hardcover
192029992New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe 1920. First edition. 8vo publisher’s original blue cloth with orange lettering panels on the spine and upper cover lettered in blue and ruled in orange. 8 451 pp. An unusually well preserved and handsome copy tight and in very nice condition at the extremities. The cloth is dark and clean the orange panels and lettering are complete and especially fresh and well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE 20TH CENTURY. MAIN STREET is important for a number of reasons — among them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist and what one might now call feminist themes by a male writer. MAIN STREET was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature but was rejected by the Board of Trustees who overturned the jury's decision. The prize went instead to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for ARROWSMITH. Harcourt, Brace and Howe hardcover
19251262761925. First Edition. Signed. LEWIS Sinclair. Arrowsmith. New York: Harcourt Brace 1925. Octavo original buckram spine blue paper boards original printed paper label top edge gilt uncut. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $14000.Signed limited first edition of what many consider Lewis' greatest novel number 1 of only 500 large-paper copies signed by him. An excellent association copy owned by Ellen Knowles Eayrs-Harcourt wife of Lewis' publisher Alfred Harcourt who in a page and a half inscription describes advancing Lewis and his friend science writer Paul de Kruif $1000 from her personal account for de Kruif to get married before the two men set out for a year-long trip to research the book that would become Arrowsmith with the check she made out to de Kruif endorsed on the verso by both Lewis and de Kruif tipped to the front pastedown.""Using for his theme the losing fight made by two men with whom scientific truth is religion Mr. Lewis draws a picture for us that is disquieting in its disillusionment Arrowsmith is a pagan novel for a pagan world an authentic step forward"" Books of the Century 63-64. Although Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize Lewis declined the honor purportedly because Main Street 1921 had not been so honored. His rejection however also secured front-page status for this satire of the medical profession in the nation's newspapers. While Lewis is credited as the sole author he was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif who received 25% of the royalties on sales. Adapted to the screen in 1931 by director John Ford.This is the copy of Ellen Knowles Eayrs wife of Lewis' publisher Alfred Harcourt. In 1922 when the events Eayrs recounts in her inscription occurred she was Harcourt's secretary; she and Harcourt did not marry until 1924 the year prior to this novel's publication after Harcourt's first wife committed suicide in 1923. In this copy Eayrs has penciled a lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper recto and verso: ""When Red Lewis planned to write a novel about a scientist he persuaded Paul de Kruif who was just leaving the Rockefeller Institute to spend a year with him roaming around the West Indies South America & Europe so that the book should have genuine scientific material and point of view. Paul at the time was engaged to Rhea Barbarin who was living in Michigan and was anxious to marry her before he left but he hadn't a cent to his name. Three days before Red & Paul were to sail they blew into the Harcourt Brace office to see if they could get an advance immediately so that he could take a 2:30 train to Michigan. No officer of the firm was in so I gave them my personal check which both of them endorsed and Paul got the cash from the Fifth Ave. Bank in New York City. He & Rhea were married on my $1000 and have certainly lived happily ever afterward. EKE-EKH."" ""EKH"" indicating that she wrote this inscription at some point after marrying Harcourt. With the original check for $1000 endorsed on the verso by both Lewis and de Kruif tipped to the front pastedown. Issued on the same day as the stated second first trade edition. Without scarce glassine and slipcase. With spare paper spine label tipped to rear flyleaf. Pastore 9. Bruccoli & Clark III:213. With Eayrs' penciled signature on the front flyleaf.Front inner paper hinge expertly reinforced text clean light rubbing to board edges slight toning to spine. An extremely good copy with an appealing association. hardcover
