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1915 · 002118 — New York: George H. Doran Company 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. New York: George H. Doran Company 1915. First Edition second-state binding. VG in VG- jacket. Exceptionally rare in dustjacket. DJ has a single shallow chip off the spine crown cutting off about 1/3 of the word Tennis. Period bookseller price tag $2.50 on the spine. Minor soiling and a few closed tears. These defects noted the jacket is still attractive in the mylar sleeve. The book itself has a neat POS on the title page otherwise completely free of markings pages very clean and bright no foxing. Endpapers foxing and some spotting to top edge and front paper edge bottom edge clean. Cloth boards have virtually no wear and are bright and clean sharp cloth corners. Preface by Richard Norris Williams. Illustrated from photographs. 9x6 gilt-lettered green cloth. Ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis when he was a struggling writer about 5 years before Main Street was published. Lewis was working for George Doran at the time. <br/><br/> George H. Doran Company hardcover