Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis, Signed (12 results)

Hard Cover. First Trade Edition, First printing. Inscribed by Sidney Howard in October, 1934! FINE BOOK, CLEAN AND TIGHT, IN VERY GOOD+ DJ WITH ORIGINAL $2.50 PRICE, LIGHT EDGEWEAR, AND SMALL CHIP AND WRINKLES AT TOP OF REAR PANEL. Uncommon signed trade ediiton.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Thus. One of a small number of copies signed by Lewis and Howard for presentation to people who worked on Howard's Broadway play based on Lewis's novel. Dodsworth follows a successful American entrepreneur on an extended trip to Europe with his wife as their marriage falls apart. This version of the play includes essays by both Howard and Lewis on the process of turning a novel into a play. In his part, Lewis includes two chapters reproduced from the novel (with their original page numbers). Sinclair Lewis won the 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. Following the success of the Broadway play, Howard adapted the play into a screenplay. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won one Oscar. [1?5] [i?vi] vii?xx [xxi] [xxii?lix: numbered 316?353] lx?lxxii [1?2] 3?162 [163?166: blank] pages plus five plates, one reproducing Howard's manuscript and four stills from the performance. First edition (of the play). A very good copy in somewhat soiled boards in a very good, probably supplied (though not by me) dust jacket with a one inch triangular chip missing from the back panel. This copy is presented to Joseph Goldin "for helping turn 'Dodsworth' from a manuscript into a play." Below that printed sentiment, both Lewis and Howard have signed in ink. The recipient was an accountant who worked on Broadway productions. The book is a bit musty.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. With Sinclair Lewis' signature! 1st edition, first printing. Harcourt Brace, "Published March, 1929" on copyright page with no additional printings listed. Blue linen with orange print. Near fine with very light rubbing to title panel. An exceptionally bright and tight copy, with card signed by Sinclair Lewis with a small portrait of Lewis laid in at front endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket (2.50) with content description, no reviews on front flap. Dust jacket condition is very good: closed tears at either side of heel, small chip to left bottom corner of spine. Minor chipping to corners, minor creasing the closed tear at head of spine. Now in mylar. Faint sunning to spine of dj and front edge. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Printing. Signed by Sinclair Lewis. First edition, third printing (May, 1929). PRESENTATION: "To Emily Stevens from her swimming mate Sinclair Lewis Woodstock Aug. 20, 1929" - elegantly and clearly written in ink on front endpaper. Blue cloth with orange lettering with very light crease to spine and some wear at head, heel and corners. Spine very lightly dulled. Jacket is good minus, with chipping and creasing at head, heel and front edges, taped tears in several places on backside of jacket, and uneven mottling to spine. Price of 2.50, with front flap description of the novel, no Mencken reviews. Emily read her copy! Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Lewis on the fly leaf. First printing in a first issue jacket without front flap reviews. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with dust jacket. The jacket is well worn along the edges and split at the spine folds with old tape shadows; the book corner-rubbed but tight, clean and unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

An interesting document detailing the terms of allowing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to do a radio broadcast adaptation of Sinclair LewisÕ novel, Dodsworth, based on the screenplay of their 1936 film production of the novel. This contract is signed by M.A. Ezzell, Vice-President of the Samuel Goldwyn Studios, and accepted and signed by Huntly Gordon of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. The radio version was for Screen Guild Theater and their version of Dodsworth was aired February 2, 1943 with Walter Huston (who starred in the film opposite Bette Davis, and Nan Sunderland.).

415pp. 12mo. 415pp. 12mo. Inscribed on ffep; "To Dean Kinchurey with my greatest affection Sinclair Lewis." The recipient is Dean George W. Kirchwey, Dean of Columbia University Law School whose daughter Freda took over the editorship of "The Nation" in 1935. Lewis was published in "The Nation" Yellow wrapper. VG, spine laid down in black cloth dropbox.

Condition: Fine. Carbon copy on onionskin paper 1-1/2 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Granting Lewis, in exchange for $750 to the Theatre Guild the right to produce a broadcast (sponsored by U.S. Steel Corp) of the play version of Dodsworth. Signed by Lewis as well as the representatives of The Theatre Guild. Carbon copy on onionskin paper 1-1/2 pp. 1 vols. 4to.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Sinclair Lewis on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in orange. Near Fine with faint scratches to cloth. Pages toned, with an occasional corner crease. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown.In a Near Fine second state machine-clipped dust jacket with price intact, faint vertical fold down spine.

Original Typed Document Signed by Sidney Howard comprising a contract between Sidney Howard and Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. regarding Howard being hired to write the script adaptation of Sinclair LewisÕs novel Dodsworth. The contract is initialed three times by Sidney Howard and is signed in full by him at the end of the document where it is additionally signed by a vice-president of the Samuel Goldwyn Company. With two punch holes at the top edge and two small metal brads at the outer top corners. Fine. Both Sidney Howard and Sinclair Lewis are Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction which makes this item especially noteworthy as it represents one Pulitzer winner adapting the work of another. The film Dodsworth was released on September 23, 1936, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Maria Ouspenskaya as Baroness Von Obersdorf. It won an Oscar for Best Art Direction and was nominated for 6 more; Best Screenplay by Sidney Howard, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Huston), Best Supporting Actress (Ouspenskaya). The film tells the bittersweet story of a retired auto manufacturer (Huston) and his wife (Chatterton) who take a long-planned European vacation only to discover that they want very different things from life.

First Edition. Special presentation edition signed by the authors Sinclair Lewis and Sidney Howard. This issue was made in a tiny quantity specifically for members of the original Broadway production with a special printed page which reads ÒTo Jo Mielziner for helping to turn ÔDodsworthÕ from a manuscript into a play with gratitude of [hand signed in ink] Sinclair Lewis and [hand signed in ink] Sidney Howard. New York - September 1934.Ó Illustrated with photographs from the production. Fine bright copy in a fine dust jacket. An important presentation copy to, Jo Mielziner, who designed the sets for the original production. Sidney Howard discusses MielzinerÕs contribution in his essay on adapting the novel into play on pages xvi-xvii. Sidney Howard was a very successful Broadway playwright in the 1930s and wrote the screenplays for Gone With the Wind and both film adaptations of Sinclair LewisÕ Dodsworth and Arrowsmith. Jo Mielziner is arguably the most distinguished set designer in Broadway history creating the staging for such classics as the original productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, South Pacific, Carousel, Mister Roberts, Key Largo, Abe Lincoln In Illinois, Pal Joey, The King and I, Guys and Dolls, etc. An excellent association copy of a highly successful Broadway play.

Documents. Condition: Near Fine. Collection of SIGNED contracts along with a copy of the original script for the 6 October 1946 radio performance presented by The Theatre Guild on the Air. Included are a 15 July 1946 two-page contract SIGNED by Sinclair Lewis, Theatre Guild co-administrator Armina Marshall, and Polly Damrosch Howard, widow of Sidney Howard who wrote the script; 2 one-page contracts dated 24 September 1946 SIGNED by Marshall and actress Jessie Royce Landis; a one-page contract dated 13 September 1946 SIGNED by Marshall and actor Walter Huston; a two-page undated contract SIGNED by Marshall and writer Arthur Arent who adapted the script to radio; the 65-page unmarked script for DODSWORTH; and a program from the Shubert Theater for the 1934 Broadway production of DODSWORTH starring Huston. Landis was a character actress appearing in many films including TO CATCH A THIEF and NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, directed by his son John Huston. In addition to starring in the 1934 Broadway adaptation of DODSWORTH, he starred in the play's film version released two years later, which was nominated for 7 Oscars. Sidney Howard was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel ARROWSMITH and again in 1936 for DODSWORTH, which he had adapted for the stage in 1934. After dying in a tragic accident on his farm, he was the first posthumous winner of an Academy Award (1939) for his adapted screenplay for GONE WITH THE WIND. Scarce collection of original material related to this Lewis production.