Lewis Sinclair Et Al (15 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 225 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased front cover. Occassional pen markings on text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Printed paper covered boards. 224 pp.+ lvi pp. of local advertising at rear. The 100th year anniversary issue of the Yale Literary Magazine, Among the numerous pieces offered by Yale alumni are contributions by Henry Seidel Canby, Sinclair Lewis, Gifford Pinchot, Lucius Beebe, Thornton Wilder, Archibald macLeish, Stephen Vincent Benet, Brendal Gill, and others. Very good. …

64p., 6x9 inches, poetry and fiction, showing edge and shelf wear, very toned along edges of cover, else in good in stapled wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First book publication of Lewis novella Dollar Chasers. Narrow chip acress top of dust jacket spine. In Mylar cover. Out of print and scarce in dust jacket. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First book publication of Lewis novella Dollar Chasers. Narrow chip across top of dust jacket spine. In Mylar cover. Out of print and scarce in dust jacket. Binding is cloth.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This is a vintage short story compilation, "12 Great Modern Stories" - A new Collection. 1944; Avon Book Company; New York. Softcover with 162 numbered pages. This issue features stories by ERNEST HEMINGWAY, JOHN STEINBECK, Sinclair Lewis, and others - please see the photos for the complete list of contents. Condition: Some very light soiling to the covers. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. The pages are age-toned, though not brittle. Clean pages with no notable issues found. Overall the book is in Very Good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Some light browning page and board edges, spine faintly soiled, cover corners rubbed, very good. A collection of writings on College life.

62p., 5x8 inches, poetry and fiction, showing some slight shelf wear, else in good in stapled wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 832 pages; one quarter grey cloth over green paper covered boards; gilt spine titles over green labels; top edge green; two-color illustrations; pictorial dust jacket; minor wear to boards, slight softening to head and tail of spine; front hinge split, still firmly attached; some wear to extremities of jacket, spot to lower front, age-toning to verso; a very good plus copy in a very good minus jacket; sound example of this collection of novels and short stories from the 1920s.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine in wrappers. This "Silver Anniversay Issue" contains a treasure house of writers' pieces published in the first 25 years of "Esquire's history of publishing. It's housed in a stiff cardboard silver sleeve that is in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near-fine with a touch of foxing to fore-edge, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good dust jacket (all four corners slightly clipped but price intact) with a closed tear, slight wear at the corners and a chip to the top right corner of the front panel. An attractive copy of this rather scarce title.…

Hardcover. First Edition. pp. [1-4], 5-207, [1]. Small 8vo. Publisher's lucent light-blue cloth over boards w/navy-blue lettering to the spine, and front board, untrimmed edges. Complete with all eight black-and-white leaves of portraits (H.G. Wells, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Rebecca West, St. John Ervine, C.B. Cochran, Clemence Dane (loose), Edith Sitwell, Philip Guedalla). Light bumps to spine ends and tips, faint foxing to the boards, endpapers and preliminary leaves, else, text-block remains clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding. Overall, good+. …

Self-wrappers, 12mo, unpaginated (12 pp.). Very good condition, creased at top right corner. Booklet with contributions by clients of this bookshop. Most of the contributions are a few lines, with two a full page. Somewhat longer contributions by Elmer Adler and J. Brooks Atkinson occupy the first page of text; among the others who contributed tributes to the shop and comments on collecting are William Rose Benet, Robert W. Chambers, John Erskine, Joseph Hergesheimer, the Lincoln collector Emanuel Hertz, Sinclair Lewis, Christopher Morley, Vincent Starrett, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Tiffany Thayer" (Elmer Ellsworth, Jr.), and Louis Untermeyer. The two full-page contributions are "Why Not Crime?" by Edward Hale Bierstadt and "Fantasia Impromptu" by Benjamin de Casseres ("Selections from a Forthcoming Work"). WorldCat shows a dozen or so copies in US libraries, four of this booklet alone and others with the catalogue itself. We have some other early catalogues from this firm from the 1930s and 1940s; please inquire.…

Wraps. Condition: Good. Color illustrated wraps, front cover by Harrison Fisher. 212 pp. Single issue of this magazine, notably featuring the first appearance of the 'Bongo' a children's story by Sinclair Lewis, that follows the adventures of a trained circus bear. With illustrations by Jose Segrelles. Disney bought the rights to the story in the hopes of making it into a movie. It did eventually get released in a different version than the story. Also present is work by Anita Loos, Rafael Sabatini and others. GOOD condition. Faint doodling on the front cover, affecting the illustration. Minor soiling. Some scuffing, fading, wrinkling and creasing to the covers. Some splitting to the lower rear hinge of the spine.…

First Edition. First edition. Includes 22 letters by "Celebrated Intellectuals" many of whom were Nobel Prize recipients including Karl Capek, Albert Einstein, Selma Lagerlof, Sinclair Lewis, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Izrael Zangwill, et al. Published in the U.S. by Boni and the UK by The C. W. Daniel Company for the International Committee for Political Prisoners (I.C.P.P.) whose members, who are listed opposite the title page, included Jane Addams (the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize), Clarence Darrow, Anna N. Davis, Eugene Debbs, W. E. B. DuBois, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Elisabeth Gilman, et al. The I.C.P.P. was established in 1924 to agitate for the release of and raise funds for political prisoners around the world. "An impetus to the committee's formation was the imprisonment of Menshevists, Social Revolutionaries, Maximalists, Anarchists, and other dissenters in the U.S.S.R. Consequently, the committee's first major effort was the publication of LETTERS FROM RUSSIAN PRISONS in 1925. This book profiled imprisoned revolutionaries, and its criticism of the Soviet government generated controversy in leftist circles."-from the website of the New York Public Library. 8vo black pebble-cloth boards stamped in gilt and ruled on front in blind; top edge red; illustrated with photographs of original documents & letters; 317 pages. Spine gilt perished (if it was ever there) otherwise very good with contents fine and binding strong.…