Bethel Merriday / Sinclair Lewis by Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

The Modern Library,, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/GOOD. 390 clean, unmarked, tight pages; red H stamped on front flyleaf; foxing on outer edges; cover is clean and sturdy; price-clipped dust jacket has shelf and corner wear and small tears at top and bottom edges

New York, NY, USA.: Avon Books., 1941. Book. Illus. by Musacchia, J. (illustrator).. GOOD, Decent Reading Copy. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 432 pages; >> Avon Books #1 ; 1941; Scarce in this Printing; 1st paperback Ed; 1st Printing with oval shaped picture of Shakespeare, back issue list of titles to interior endpages; >> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; spine slant.minor staining along paper spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..

The Modern Library,. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1.

New York: Bantam Books, 1949. ....# 705, tight clean and square, no names or store stamps, flat uncreased spine, faint edge wear, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. First Bantam Editon . Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by James Avati.

Wentworth Press. Like New. New book in the new slipcase. Dust jacket in protective Mylar cover.

[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… Read More

[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.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1926. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo; Limited edition 357/975; G; Hardcover; Spine, black without print; Boards half bound with black cloth to spine and corners and green paper to boards, paper title label with red print on front, light wear to spine caps and corners, slightly cocked spine, toning to paper; Text block has light tanning to endpapers, uncut pages, else clean and tight; 22 pages, frontispiece. 1353260. FP New Rockville Stock.

[Garden City], NY : Doubleday, Doran & Company, c1938., 1938. Very Good. 1st ed. (unstated) ; red cloth ; LCCN: 38-27043 ; OCLC: 288640 ; where else can you find epithets like, "you Soviet Salvation Army lassie!" and characters with names like Cornplow and Staybridge? ; classic Lewis ; VG

NY: P. F. Collier and Son Corporation, 1933. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. VeryGood. 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… Read More