Graham Tom Sinclair Lewis (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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 house during the First World War, she has her first sexual affair, becomes pregnant, and has an abortion. Later, having become successful running a modern and progressive prison for women, she marries a dull man, more out of loneliness than love. Wikipedia Mired in a rather loveless marriage, she falls in love with a controversial (and perhaps corrupt) judge. Flouting both middle-class convention and that of her progressive social circle in New York, she becomes pregnant by the judge, having a son.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. This is the first book published by Sinclair Lewis written under the pseudonym Tom Graham. Lewis went on to become the first American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Very rare. Covers are lightly to moderately soiled and spine lettering is slightly rubbed. Bookplate. Four illustrations by Arthur Hutchins. Rear hinge split and repaired -- not a professional repair. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 275 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 275pp. Contemporary gift inscription on the front fly, hinges slightly started and moderate rubbing at the spine, a solid, very good copy. When encountered, this cheaply produced children's book is generally found with the lettering and painted pictorial cover pretty well worn. This is a considerably better than usual copy, lacking the rare dust jacket. The very scarce, pseudonymous first book by the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, printed in an edition of only 1000 copies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Beige pictorial cloth stamped in black/orange/grey. First and only edition. Bookplate to fep, dampstain to prelims, another dampstain around p. 30 that effects several other pages, mesh showing front, mid and rear. Rubbed through at corner, cocked, and titles rubbed off of spine. Binding loose but attached. Frontis with tissue, with two other illustrations, lacking one. Sinclair Lewis' debut novel, in well-loved condition, now protected in acetate. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

First Edition. HIKE AND THE AEROPLANE, Stokes, 1912, first edition, some flaking to the lettering on the spine (but all still easily readable), else a fine copy in the publishers original gray cloth pictorial binding in bright detail. Illustrated. The first book by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature. 1/1,000 copies. Very scarce in this marvelous condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A very scarce copy of Sinclair Lewis' pseudonymous debut, a juvenile novel about the adventures of a 16 year old hero fighting a villainous captain. Published in a single, small print run of 1,000 copies, and like many authors, Lewis' embarrassment over his early effort caused him not to allow Hike to be reprinted until 1979. Lewis' bibliographer notes that after a recent census was taken, just 35 copies were extant, and two others known in dust jacket. Octavo (19.5cm. Gray pictorial cloth with a boy dangling from an aeroplane. 275 pages with a frontispiece and internal illustrations on coated paper by Arthur Hutchins. Spine is worn and lettering barely visible. Soiled cover with rubbing to the extremities and cover decorations. Binding is loose but attached with netting exposed in front and rear. The frontispiece and tissue guard are in place and is the third of three illustrations, but the other illustrations are missing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Book is now protected in a plastic acetate dust jacket.…

275 pp. 8vo, publisher's illustrated cloth; preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Lacking the original printed dust jacket. First edition. A fine, bright copy, and very, very unusual in this condition. Author's first book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. This is the true first edition of this scarce title seldom seen in this nice of condition. Most copies have the spine lettering worn off, but this copy doesn't. See the picture. The book has a tight binding, with light wear to the spine ends and to the extremeties. There is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a nice copy of this scarce title that includes a custom acedate dustjacket to protect the boards.…