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Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Clarence, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First Trade Edition. First edition with "Second printing [first trade edition]" stated on the copyright page. Exceptionally rare original first issue dust jacket with the $2.00 price present on the front flap. Measures approximately 7.5" x 5", with 448 numbered pages.
The book is in near fine condition. Very minor wear to the edges. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Interior pages are bright and well preserved. The dust jacket is in very good plus condition. Minor edgewear and chipping to the spine ends. Small closed tears to the top and bottom edges of the front and rear panels. Numerous old and unnecessary tape repairs to the verso of the dust jacket, not visible under mylar.
"Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis deals with the culture of science in a fictional setting.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory# (N12-72).
The book is in near fine condition. Very minor wear to the edges. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Interior pages are bright and well preserved. The dust jacket is in very good plus condition. Minor edgewear and chipping to the spine ends. Small closed tears to the top and bottom edges of the front and rear panels. Numerous old and unnecessary tape repairs to the verso of the dust jacket, not visible under mylar.
"Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis deals with the culture of science in a fictional setting.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory# (N12-72).
Synopsis
Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair’s socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, and in the period from Ann Vickers (1933) to the posthumously published World So Wide (1951) Lewis wrote ten novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. From Main Street to Stockholm , a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street , a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, and after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5420
- Title
- Arrowsmith
- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
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- Chipping
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- First Edition
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Bookplate
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Copyright page
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