Search Results: the prodigal parents a novel by lewis sinclair

Doubleday Doran, 1938. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Light soiling and wear to the red covers; note inside the cover, pages a little yellowed; a good sound binding. No jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 197748. .

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good+ ; Fair Jacket. 1938 Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. First Edition, stated. First state, with short title page indicative of the first 10,000 copies. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and blind-stamped author's initials on the cover. Deckle fore edges. 301 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear, with mild fading at the edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Jacket has tattered top and bottom edges, with several pieces missing from edges, as well as several tears. A one-inch square piece of front panel of the jacket has been reattached from the interior with archival repair tape. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped, showing original price of $2.50. Jacket has clear plastic jacket cover. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12x12x2. First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned, light general wear. 1938 Hard Cover. 301 pp. "The revolt of the parents against the revolt of youth as exemplified by a typical middle-class family of four." Fred Cornplow, shrewd middle-class realist, gradually wakes to find that Sarah, his selfish college graduate daughter, and his son Howard, still irregularly playing football for old Truxon, think of him as intellectually obsolete, as a convenience, as a walking bank account to whom they need return neither affection nor thoughtfulness. If you are a father or a mother with young or grown-up children; if you are a young man or a young woman looking into the bewildering world beyond the shelter of parents or college; if you are curious about human problems today - Sinclair Lewis' novel will absorb you and entertain you. With his genius for dramatizing thoughts that… Read More

[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

[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

Garden City:: Doubleday, Doran & Company,, 1938.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Gold lettering on spine darkened; otherwise a nice bright copy in a jacket with a few small rubbed areas at extremities and a lightly soiled rear panel.. 8vo,.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. This book is hard-bound in red cloth with blind stamping on the upper cover and gilt stamping on the spine, in a nice dust jacket with light soiling/toning on the lower panel and wear/light chipping to the edges. The covers show a few faint scuffs, and light toning to the edges and spine. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. --- From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! .