Lewis Sinclair Lloyd (17 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

hardcover, Condition: Good, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 163pp., faded spine, a little mustiness, G $.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 163p. Text is unmarked with a warm patina and deckle edges. Binding is mildly canted but tight, hinges are cracked but remain fully attached to boards. Dark blue cloth is sunned on edges and spine with pointed corners. Protected in a clear mylar sheath, lacking dust wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Includes: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Letters "Advice to a Young Writer". A One-Act Play "A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrott" by Tennessee Williams. Article "The Death of James Dean" by John Dos Passos. A Missing Chapter from An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Article "Away with the Realtor" by Frank Lloyd Wright. Very Good: covers lightlky soiled. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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.

xxi, 163 pp. Small 8vo, publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Almost fine; in a jacket with some minor edge wear, one short tear, and some light creasing.

xxi, 163 pp. Small 8vo, publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy in a jacket with some minor edge wear and one short tear repaired with tape on verso.

First Edition. One of only 1076 copies printed. Period play set during the United States Civil War, focusing on a group of "abolitionists and free soilers in Illinois and Kansas, who, even before the firing on Sumter carried on a guerrilla warfare." Near Fine with sunning to top edge, in Very good Plus dustjacket, few small tears to top edge, wear to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. Plain blue cloth in a Very Good blue and white dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with mild general wear and a few small chips. Mild fading to upper edges of boards. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 163pp. The last member of the cast-list of the New York production (in 1934) was Milburn Stone, famous for his part as Doc Adams in the long-running television series Gunsmoke. Q07556.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Spine ends and board edges lightly sunned, near fine in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket with small chippin on spine ends and topedge on rear panel.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xx,163,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine ends and upper board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently sunned, lightly shelfworn and dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good+. A play written in conjunction with Lloyd Lewis, a drama critic at the Chicago Daily News. Based on a true event from the Civil War, which involved a plot to united the North and South by creating a common enemy: Mexico. PASTORE, pp.217-221.

Full Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full purple cloth with silver lettering on the spine, blindstamped title and design on the front cover, edges of the book a bit aged toned with the silver starting to fade, remnants of a previous owner book plate behind the front cover, jacket is not price-clipped but there is chipping to the top & bottom of the spine, with several small closed teasrs. Overall a GOOD PLUS book in a GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. Photos available upon request. Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as their strong characterizations of modern working women. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

xix, 163 pp. 8vo, original blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Very slight sunning at edges of boards; otherwise fine in a jacket with minute rubbing at edges and a lightly dust-soiled rear panel.

FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. ACCORDING TO STEPHEN PASTORE: "THIS IS, PERHAPS, THE SCARCEST TITLE IN THE POST-1930 LEWIS LEXICON." THE FIRST EDITION HAD A PRINTING OF ONLY 1076 COPIES. BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES AND TITLES BLIND-STAMPED TO THE FRONT COVER. OTHER THAN A TRACE OF FADE TO THE EDGES A FINE UNMARKED AND CLEAN COPY. D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF WEAR AT THE CORNERS WITH SHALLOW CHIPPING AT THE ENDS OF THE SLIGHTLY TANNNED SPINE PANEL, A SMALL CHIP AT THE TOP OF THE REAR PANEL, A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [4], v-xx, [2], 3-163, [1] pp. Blue cloth with a decoration and lettering in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Cream endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several in-text illustrations. Pastore {22}. A Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown; jacket has toning and minor edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 164 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Paul Galdone. One of only 1,076 copies of this rare play. Fine book with a touch of fading to the top edge in a near fine dust jacket with slight wear to the corners. A beautiful copy!