Dragons Teeth by Sinclair Upton, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First printing with the words "FIRST PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 1942" printed on the copyright page with NO later printings indicated. This copy is SIGNED by Upton Sinclair on a publisher's page tipped into the book. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's $3.00 printed price present on the front flap with some wear spine and edges. The book is bound in the publisher's red cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The self published soft cover edition in poor condition entirely missing the front cover. Inscribed and signed with love to Isabel Frazee by the author. Isabel Frazee is certainly Susan Isabel Frazee author of Grammar and Practice. She taught at Pasadena City College. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Top corner a little bumped else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with a little age-toning and tiny nicks and tears. Inscribed by Upton Sinclair to Sinclair Lewis (using his nickname, Hal): "To Hal, How many strange things have happened in the world in the thirty-five years since fate brought us together. Upton. Xmas, 1941." The act of fate referred to was when Sinclair Lewis left Yale in 1906 to become a janitor at Upton Sinclair's ill-fated Helicon Hall colony. Above the inscription is a penciled note initialed by author Lewis Browne, the final line of his note has been partially erased but is nevertheless readable and we include it here: "This volume was mailed to Sinclair Lewis c/o my address (we were lecture-touring together) and S.L. told me to keep it because he was traveling light [erased] - and didn't care for the book anyway. L.B." Presumably Browne erased the final line when he in turn gave the book away. On the tour, Lewis and Browne's were debating whether fascism was possible in the United States. A nicer than usual copy of this entry in Sinclair's Lanny Budd series, wartime Pulitzer Prize winner, uncommon in jacket, and with a wonderful association.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Very rare gift copy of Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, signed by Sinclair to the front free endpaper. The gift copies, published by the author, were distributed to friends and acquaintances prior to the publication of the trade edition. New York and Pasadena: Self-published, 1942. Wraps with dust jacket, pp. [1], viii, 632. In poor condition. Text block still sound, with scattered minor soiling to edges, number erased from title page, spine replaced with paper and title/author written in. Jacket is split at the joints, with repair tape to edges, shelfwear, light soiling. Thin cardboard boards inserted at front and back, with the back one loose. A great candidate for restoration or rebinding. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. First. Numbered from the estate of Eleanor Roosevelt, Author signed to Eleanor Roosevelt. Cloth cover has multiple small water stains, scuff marks and some fading. Spine missing with surrounding edges frayed and torn. Corners lightly bumped and slightly frayed. Text block tanned from age and shelf-wear. Pages clean, binding good. Ask for pictures.Hardcover. Signed by Author. book.