Sinclair Harry Lewis (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 378 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Soft cover. Pocket paper back. A Bantam Pathfinder Edition. Edge/shelf wear. Corner bumped. Rubbed/scuffed. Tiny chips at edges. Ex-school room/library stamp within. No copyright page. JP20. Original cover price 20 cents. Pages toned with age. TOC available upon request. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. SHORTSTORIES.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, review copy. 'Review Copy' slip from Random House laid in. Moderate to heavy rubbing to the edges and corners of the DJ. DJ also shows minor closed tears/chipping. Binding is tight and square. Newpaper clipping pasted in on the front end page about the review. Pages are otherise clean and bright with no markings. DJ is now protected by a mylar cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 76 pages. Illustrated. Contributors include: George Johnstone / Arthur Setterington / John Wade / D F Parker / Ian Adair / David Britland / John Yeager / Harry Carnegie / Howard Gower / I Rowland / Reginald Boncey / George Blake / John Blackham (Hofner) / Stanton Carlisle / Sinclair / Jack Bridwell / John Novak / Mark S Farrar / Lewis Ganson /Keith Nicholson / Len Belcher / Someeran of India. (VM9).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stated first printing, 1953. Very good in good unclipped, rubbed jacket, creasing at head and heel and minor blue marks on front wrap.The selection covers a whole dimension of Lewis' writing career, not otherwise available. "The collecton presents an interesting view of the author's development as a satiric writer and a man of highest ideals." Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Franklin Library Limited Edition. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.25cm. Full reddish-brown leather binding; vibrant gilt stamping to spine and both boards; spine additionally decorated with four raised bands. All edges gilt. Dark brown silk moire endpapers. Sewn-in dark brown silk ribbon page marker. Binding remains quite crisp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. First published in the UK in 1923, this is an umpteenth edition of 1965. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely red jacket and spine, spine very slightly browned, some browning and spotting to back jacket and folds, but overall red jacket bright and unfaded. Not price clipped (21s), but price has single biro squiggle over it, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 379pp. 'Babbitt' is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by 'Babbitt' was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930. The novel has been filmed twice, once as a silent in 1924, starring Willard Lewis and remade as a talkie in 1934, starring Guy Kibbee. The word 'Babbitt' has entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle class standards". By American novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4.5" x 7" Paperback. xvi, 378 pp. Spine sunned, covers age toned and creased.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [i-viii]+[3]-438+[436-40] pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt "SL" on cover, gilt lettering of title and author over red rectangles on spine in original jacket. (Pastore page 267) First edition. The novel tells the story of Gideon Planish, an unprincipled social climber who becomes involved in various shady philanthropic organizations in his quest for stature without accountability. The work did not fare as well with critics as some of Lewis' earlier social novels, and is considered one of his minor works. Condition: Jacket spine ends chipped and rubbed, price clipped, closed edge tears with some small chips. chips to corners else a very good copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well attacked. The book was written quickly and obsessively during the stage run of It Can't Happen Here and it sold fairly well. The jacket design, an overly serious, almost funereal combination of black, gilt and the intertwined laurel branch and initials hardly befits the light tone of the contents and is a good example of the detachment of the publisher from the published. The book is easy to come by in collectible condition, although the spine gilt on the jacket rubs easily as does the back ground of the jacket overall. Condition: Corners and spine ends bumped. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped, hinges and fold over edges rubbed and chipped, edge wear with some closed edge tears. Very good in about a very good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 5.25"x7.63" 561 numbered pages. Navy cloth. Alfred Nobel profile blind-stamped on front w/authors signature in gilt mirrored on spine. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked. Part of a set produced by Collier. Edge wear w/faint rubbing and fraying. Secure ship w/track #. Ann Vickers is a 1933 novel by Sinclair Lewis. It was made into a 1933 drama film of the same name directed by John Cromwell, adapted by Jane Murfin, and starring Irene Dunne, Bruce Cabot, Walter Huston, and Conrad Nagel. The novel follows the heroine, Ann Vickers, from tomboy school girl in the late 19th century American Midwest, through college, and into her forties. It charts her postgraduate suffragist phase in the early 20th century. As a suffragist, she is imprisoned, and her experiences there lead her to become interested in social work and prison reform. As a social worker in a settlement house during the First World War, she has her first sexual affair, becomes pregnant, and has an abortion. Later, having become successful running a modern and progressive prison for women, she marries a dull man, more out of loneliness than love. Wikipedia Mired in a rather loveless marriage, she falls in love with a controversial (and perhaps corrupt) judge. Flouting both middle-class convention and that of her progressive social circle in New York, she becomes pregnant by the judge, having a son.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 5 3/4 X 8 5/8 Inches. 371 PP. State "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $3.75 intact. Wear to DJ edges and folds. Minor offsetting from tape to edges that has been removed. An appealing copy overall.

In-16° gr. (cm. 18,1 x 11,3), pp. 475 (4) cat. edit. Bross. gialla con tit. nero e albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata nera e tip. al piatto ant., tit. nero al ds., albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata b/n al piatto post., privo di sovr. Tracce di consunzione alle cuffie e alle cerniere, fioriture.

In-16° gr. (cm. 18,1 x 11,3), pp. 467. Bross. gialla con tit. nero e albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata nera e tip. al piatto ant., tit. nero al ds., albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata b/n al piatto post., privo di sovr. Minime tracce di consunzione alle cuffie, fioriture.

Frontespizio: The romantic adventures of a gentle man. In-16° gr. (cm. 18,1 x 11,3), pp. 242 (12) cat. edit. Bross. gialla con tit. nero e albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata nera e tip. al piatto ant., tit. nero al ds., albatross b/n entro doppia cornice filettata b/n al piatto post., sovr. identica alla bross. Bruniture al ds. della sovr., fioriture.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. 28 pages; portraits; marbled boards with gilt label on the cover (4 3/4 x 6 3/8 inch). Contains a history of the Prize and accounts of previous winners. Very good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First ENGLISH EDITION. Clean tight copy of book, page edges a little dusty but the dust jacket is faded, worn, rumpled, tanned to all edges and has some slight loss to top and tail of spine, bottom of rear panel and a large chip to the top of the front panel, none of which actually affects the text on the dust jacket. C00003066.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Duodecimo. Blue cloth spine over paper marbled boards, gilt title plate at front cover, illustrated with numerous portraits of authors. Near fine, very light faded covers, pages very slightly agetoned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. [i-viii+452+[453-56] pages. Octavo (8 1/8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's medium blue cloth with gilt on spine with concentric impressed rectangle enclosing a gilt laurel branch on cover in original pictorial jacket. 50,000 copies of the first edition in dust jacket issued. (Pastore: 13) First edition. This is the "hotel novel" as it has become to be called, and it shows that odd dichotomy of Lewis that is the decisional measuring stick separating those who love Lewis and those who don't. Here is the story of an artist set against the story of a hotel clerk and here is Lewis equating art and hotel management. Most critics feel that this is not Lewis at his best because of this equation, that in setting out to talk about art, he ends up knee-deep in the hotel business. Of course, this misses the point. Lewis was the master of finding "art" in the commonplace and there is hardly a novel of his that does not touch on this issued. This second Doubleday book firmly established the format that they would follow that was initiated by Ann Vickers. The binding is nicely produced with the Nobel emblem impressed into the cover. The jacket, designed by Edward Fiene, a well known and respected commercial artist, is the first pictorial jacket since Main Street and Doubleday commented on several occasions that this cover was responsible for a "good proportion of sales." The jacket spine readily darkens with sunlight exposure. (Pastore: 309) Condition Offset darkening to front end paper and paste down, spine head and back head hinges rubbed through. Dust jacket extremities restored by Octavaye Studios. A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [i-vi]+vii-viii+[ix-x]+390 pages. Octavo (8 7/16" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with initials "SL" impressed on cover decorated with impressed laurel branch superimposed over cover initials; gilt title in black rectangle on spine; author's name in black on gilt rectangle on spine. Dust jacket in blue with red and white banner on cover lettered in verso, gilt and white on spine. 33,250 printed of the first edition in dust jacket. (Pastore:259) First edition. In the Summer of 1939, Lewis and Fay Wray collaborated loosely on a play titled (and unpublished) Angela is Twenty-Two. Lewis did the writing with the intention of playing the male lead; Fay Wray helped with the staging and visual dramatics. Lewis became more involved with drama and acting, even so far as joining Actors Equity, sponsored by Helen Hayes. When the play opened on December 30, 1939, it was well-received leading Lewis to take it on the road where he not only acted but directed as well. This tour became the narrative framework of Bethel Merriday, right down to the young heroine having an affair with the much older director. When the book landed in bookstores, Lewis was in Hollywood negotiating for screen rights to the movie version of the book. while he received $50,000 for these rights, the film was never produced. Total sales for the novel were the lowest of any of his books since Free Air, 48,770 copies were sold through book club and reprints in addition to the first printing which ended up being remaindered in the amount of 9500 of the 33,250 copies of the first edition. The dust jacket, designed by John Falls for Doubleday has a 4th of July motif unrelated to the novel, but patriotic in appearance, apropos America's entry into WWII. The absurd blurb on the verso states "America is made up in equal parts of movie double-features, chewing gum, swing, straight-eights, and Sinclair Lewis, who has made lusty American literature out of all the rest." It is difficult to believe Doubleday, who created the SL - olive branch laureate logo, could have sanctioned this shallow promotional fluff. the irrational collection of cover design, jacket design, content, and promotional in-exactitude made this book the landmark of Lewis's literary decline; in few other cases has the book as artifact so paralleled the chaos of an author's life, the publisher's asyncopy and the nation's ambivalence. (Pastore: 255) Condition: Corners gently bumped. Dust jacket price clipped, spine ends and corners chipped closed tear with crease at front head hinge. A better than very good copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [i-x]+390 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt "SL" and tilt title to cover and author's name in black rectangles on spine in original first state, black over blue, jacket. (Pastore page 273) First edition. 10,000 copies of the black on blue dust jacket were printed. It is a warm human story, a story of people everyone knows, of a community anyone could live in. There is none of the deliberate out of scale characterization that makes one feel -- at times -- that he is mainly a satirist. There is the inescapable sense of familiarity in characters, in situations, in background, that made Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Dodsworth live as household words. It is a story of marriage, the focus on Judge Timberlane and the lovely, somewhat unstable young wife, Jinny, who alternately stimulated his passion, his worship, his jealousy. But it is too the story of a community, of various types of people, patterns of marriage -- a story of an average mid-western small city today. Condition: Spine lightly soiled. Jacket spine ends and corners chipped, edge wear with some closed tears else very good in about very good jacket.

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Condition: Gut. 351 Seiten Zustand: GUTER Zustand. HC1-104-1/8-00627089 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 537.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Tradução de Bernardo Ramos. Colecção Clássicos do Romance Contemporâneo, N.º 13. Editora Ulisseia. Lisboa. Lisboa. 1973. De 23x16 cm. Com 415, [i] págs. Encadernação do editor, com sobrecapa de protecção. Exemplar com danos de manuseamento na sobrecapa. Language: Português / Portuguese Location/localizacao: SACO PA566-27.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Romance. Editorial Minerva. Lisboa. S.d. De 19x14 cm. Com 411, [i] págs. Brochado. Exemplar com sinais de manuseamento na lombada e nas capas, picos de acidez nas capas e no corte das folhas e carimbo oleográfico na folha de guarda. Versão portuguesa de José António Machado. Harry Sinclair Lewis, nascido em 7 de Fevereiro de 1885, conhecido pelas suas obras Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), e It Can't Happen Here (1935), e as suas criticas ao capitalismo e materialismo americano entre guerras. Foi o primeiro autor americano a ser galardoado com o Prémio Nobel da Literatura, em 1930. Language: Português / Portuguese Location/localizacao: I-120-I-6.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. (Mains Street). 2.? Édition. Traduit par Suzanne Flour. Éditions Jacques Haumont. Paris. 1932. De 19x13 cm. Com 706 págs. Encadernação com lombada em pele e ferros a ouro. Pastas revestidas em papel decorativo e corte das folhas mosqueado. Preserva a capa de brochura anterior. Exemplar com falhas de pele e de papel, manchas de oxidação nos cortes dos miolo, e assinatura de posse na capa de brochura anterior. Tradução em francês da obra de Harry Sinclair Lewis, nascido em 7 de Fevereiro de 1885, conhecido pelas suas obras Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), e It Can"t Happen Here (1935), e as suas criticas ao capitalismo e materialismo americano entre guerras. Foi o primeiro autor americano a ser galardoado com o Prémio Nobel da Literatura, em 1930. Data de publicação consultada na BNF. Language: Francês / French Location/localizacao: I-167-G-1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Babbitt (1922) is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. Wikipedia. This copy is the original 1922 hardback edition -- NOT PRINT ON DEMAND. It is in excellent condition with a tight, straight binding, and a bright,very good cover dustjacket which is chipped and internally repaired and in clear, mylar covering. The book measuring 8" x 5.5" will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS COLLECTION. This collection consists of a Yale University yearbook (1907) and signed letters primarily from Harry Sinclair Lewis to college friend Elias Robert Stevenson. Stevenson and Lewis were close friends at Yale and maintained contact throughout their lives. Stevenson became a newspaperman and spent most of his career as an editor at the Republican-American in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was the model for the newspaper-editor-protagonist Doremus Jessup in Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. Lewis visited Stevenson and toured the brass factories in Waterbury while doing research for a labor novel he never completed. During one of those visits Lewis signed Stevenson's yearbook using his first name, "Harry."----- This use of his first name in his signature is highly unusual; Lewis stopped using his first name in college. His college diaries (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) reflect the change from his earliest diary in 1903, signed Harry S. Lewis, to his final diary in 1907 that he signed Sinclair Lewis.----- Included in this collection is Stevenson's college yearbook and a group of eight letters from Lewis (and others) to E. Robert Stevenson (ERS). A related article based on this collection, which illuminates the friendship of Harry and Elias, is included. (Dooling, Michael Carroll, On a First Name Basis, Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Fall 2005.)----- LIST OF ITEMS:----- HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1907. New Haven: Yale University, 1907. 8vo, blue cloth, re-backed with original spine laid over, 450 pp., very good condition. Signed by nearly every member of the class of 1907.----- FEBRUARY 6, 1931 TLS from Lewis to ERS re: Billy Sunday & Cornelius Vanderbilt "roast."----- JUNE 4, 1936 ALS from Lewis to ERS re: motoring to Waterbury, "not for publication."----- JULY 28, 1936 ALS from Lewis to ERS re: "Greetings to you and the family."----- FEBRUARY 17, 1937 TLS from Lewis to ERS regarding Supreme Court legislation; penned note at bottom refers to Dorothy Thompson's column in the Herald Tribune.----- JUNE 11, 1937 TLS from Lewis to ERS re: not attending the Yale reunion.----- JULY12, 1951 TLS from Ethel Fairmont Beebe to ERS re: Harrison Smith research (Smith was the author of From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis 1919 -1930, published in 1952).----- AUGUST 17, 1954 TLS from Lewis' biographer Mark Schorer to ERS re: information about Sinclair Lewis, specifically relating to sociological data on Waterbury he may have provided to Lewis for his labor novel.----- JULY 3, (no year) TLS from Lewis' second wife, journalist Dorothy Thompson, to ERS regarding an editorial.-----.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1922. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 334, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 334 334.