Romantic by Sinclair, Signed (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1989. First Edition. 161 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 262 pages, illustrations. 24 cm. ASSOCIATION-PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author, "To Upton Sinclair, after an unbroken lifelong friendship from Martin Birnbaum". Numbered "6" of 500 copies printed on handmade paper. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. Author Upton Sinclair, famous for The Jungle and other works of fiction, then gifted or loaned the book to another close friend Richard Stuart Otto, who managed Sinclair's run for Governor of California in 1934. A handwritten note from Sinclair to "Dick" signed by "Upton", is pasted onto the front free endpaper. Also inserted: a handwritten letter from Birnbaum, dated 1961, to Otto, thanking him for corresponding with him about the book. Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970) was a New York art dealer with an aristocratic background. He boasts in this book: "I was probably the first person in America to purchase or exhibit the works of such men as Lehmbruck, Kokoschka, Gargalo, Feininger, Klee, Pascin, Ensor, Munch and others." In a New York Times obituary of Birnbaum, Upton Sinclair is referred to as "an old friend and City College class mate." Size: 8vo. SIGNED. Collectible.

Frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. Frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed twice by Lewis to Mary Vorse O'Brien and Joseph O'Brien, the first signed only with initials, the other with an inscription "To Joe, & to Mary, (who used to make me 'write some more Mr. Wrenn') from their friend & adorer, Sinclair Lewis" Mary Vorse wrote "The Prestons", "Passaic", "Second Cabin" and "Strike." She spent most of her life in Provincetown. A very nice association copy of his second book. Merle Johnson p 311 Original grey cloth gilt, rubbed, some browning and spotting of text, generally light, in custom clamshell box.