Typed Letter Signed
Lewis, Sinclair
Publication Date: 1928
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Single sheet, single -side typed letter August 30, 1928 to Mr. Thierry, in care of Alfred Harcourt. First line reads "Dear. Mr. Thierry, I am sorry to have to say that I do not very much like your pamphlet "The Protestant Plot." Two short paragraphs, with one handwritten addition. Signed by Sinclair Lewis in black ink. App. 8" X 10" folded, typed, then folded again for mailing. Tape repair to fold of verso, small stain and small number to verso. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author Manuscripts and paper collectibles. Seller Inventory # 36162
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Title: Typed Letter Signed
Publication Date: 1928
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
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2 March 1937, Bronxville, NY, 1937
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First Edition
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Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
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Letter. One page on 5-3/4" x 6-1/2" personal stationery SIGNED in full to Dramatists Play Service ordering "plays mentioned on the enclosed list [not present], as advertised in your latest announcement." Ink stamp of date received at bottom left margin; crease from folding. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 021348
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Typed Letter Signed
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Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ("Sinclair Lewis") in black fountain pen ink on his Sinclair Lewis, 148 E. 48, New York letterhead, March 31, 1941. 6 3/4" x 9 7/8"; 1 page; very good (old mailing folds; minor signs of handling); 1941. Together with the original typed mailing envelope, stamped and postmarked New York, April 1, 1941 with return address on the back flap. To Mrs. O.O. McIntyre 290 Park Ave. New York, N.Y. "Dear Mrs. McIntyre: It was extremely kind of you to write to me about the broadcast -- it's so long since I've seen you that it was pleasant to hear from you again. I hope that the new book, of which you speak, will be coming along in another year now. Yours sincerely, Sinclair Lewis." Lewis at this time was separated from his wife, drinking heavily and having an extra-marital affair with another woman. Mrs. O.O. McIntyre (Maybelle Hope Small) was the widow of author and syndicated columnist Oscar Odd McIntyre (1884-1938), O.O. McIntyre started his journalism career at Gallipolis, Ohio; before long he was writing a syndicated column "New York Day by Day" which would eventually appear in over 500 newspapers!; also authored a number of books, among them "White Light Nights" 1924, and the 1935 bestseller "The Big Town"; died in 1938 at the age of 54. Lewis (1885-1951), born Harry Sinclair Lewis, February 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, died January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy; American novelist, journalist and editor; most famous for novels of Middle American life: "Main Street" 1920; "Babbitt" 1922; "Elmer Gantry" 1927; "Dodsworth" 1929; married to Dorothy Thompson in 1928 and divorced in 1942; first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature 1930. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 602716
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Typed Letter signed to McKnight Kauffer wishing him success with Return of the Native
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July Nineteenth, n.y., Cornwall
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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One page. 1 vols. Condition: Fine. One page. 1 vols. Seller Inventory # 214195
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Typed Letter Signed.
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Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
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No Binding. Condition: Fine. Typed letter signed by Lewis, dated September 28, 1925, with manuscript corrections. Folio, one leaf. Good content, writing in response to a writer for the International Book Review, who had defended his novel Arrowsmith in a letter printed in response to a negative review. "Not at all a bad thing to have a book interestingly damned and bring forth some reaction - as this review proved to do." Well preserved. Seller Inventory # M20-Of-CL-R86
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Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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No Binding. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. ("Sinclair Lewis") in black fountain pen ink on Hotel Adlon Berlin W letterhead, watermarked "Bank Post 1862", January 5, 1931. 8vo. 1 page with integral leaf. Fine, fresh example. To Herbert Evans: Letter of congratulations sent to the Nobel prize for literature was awarded to Sinclair Lewis in 1930 and extending an invitation to visit anytime Lewis is in Westport Connecticut. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 604559
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Typed Letter Signed
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Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ("Sinclair Lewis") in black fountain pen ink on his Sinclair Lewis, Indian Spring, Westport, Conn. printed letterhead, November 15, 1930. 8vo. 1 page with integral leaf. (recto only). Fine, fresh example. To Marguerite "Peggy" Tucker: "Dear Miss Tucker: Thank you very much indeed for your invitation to be present at the banquet to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Il Nuovo Mondo. It would be a great pleasure, but unfortunately in the few days before our sailing for Sweden, we shall not have a minute free. Yours sincerely, Sinclair Lewis." Lewis was notified on November 5th that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize, the first time the Literature prize had been given to an American writer. He and Mrs. Lewis sailed for Stockholm in late November for the acceptance ceremonies on December 10th. Lewis (1885-1951), born Harry Sinclair Lewis, February 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, died January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy; American novelist, journalist and editor; most famous for novels of Middle American life: "Main Street" 1920; "Babbitt" 1922; "Elmer Gantry" 1927; "Dodsworth" 1929; married to Dorothy Thompson in 1928 and divorced in 1942; first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature 1930. Marguerite ("Peggy") Tucker was a progressive intellectual who was active in socialist and left-leaning political movements in the 1920's through 1040's. She was Executive Secretary of the Civic Club of New York, a meeting place for liberals, intellectuals, writers, and progressives. She was also on the staff of Il Nuovo Mondo, a socialist periodical. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 602212
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Typed Letter Signed
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Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Archive of Two Letters, 1943, 1944 to director George Cukor on his engraved 300 Central Park West, New York City letterhead. 10 3/8" x 7 1/4". Very good. 2 pages. 1) December 1943 - Introducing his friends, Alfred and Fefa Wilson. "He's a great American aviation executive (but amusing!) and she's beautiful (but disgustingly intelligent!) and in fact their only indictable fault is that they don't know anyone in Hollywood. I wish you would have them in for one of your Sunday afternoons - which I so much remember and so much miss!" 2)March 21, 1944 - Thanking Cukor for entertaining his friends, the Wilson's. "George, I can't tell you how grateful I am. You gave them the most magnificent Class-A-with Two-Orchestras time. My only grievance is that I wasn't there with them. That cool garden beyond your wall is one of the very few things in Baghdad that I ever miss. You'll be seeing Kate Hepburn. Will you give her my love?" Sinclair in the early 40's had wintered in California where he met Cukor. In 1940 he rented Elsie Janis mansion at 724 North Linden Drive in Beverly Hills. See Mark Schorer, p 655-56; 754. He knew Kate Hepburn's father Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 610846
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ARCHIVE of 3 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and 1 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to critic Selden Rodman
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1930 -1933, 1930
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Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
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Letters. Fine group of letters from Lewis SIGNED in full to critic Selden Rodman. Two of the letters are brief social exchanges. Another is a two-page typed letter dated 22 October 1930 from Vermont. In part: "I'm delighted by the HARKNESS HOOT [Yale University campus magazine co-founded by Rodman in 1930]. I'm sure that whether it lives to be a grand old Etruscan ruin like the LIT. [THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE, the oldest literary magazine in the United States], or whether it lasts only a few years, it will have an -- no, I won't say an 'enlivening' but rather, a maturing effect on the (decreasingly) immature mind of Yale. I was once on the LIT.; I know what your revolt must have been." Lewis then expounds on co-founder William Harlan Hale's essay in the first number of the magazine, "Twenty or Over," saying that he thinks Hale "is wrong in saying that 'the literary movement begun a decade ago by Lewis, Dreiser, Anderson, and Mencken.a movement of disillusioned intellectuals.its spiritual father was the war.' In the first place, Mencken and Dreiser or Anderson and Lewis have about as little in common as Cabell and Willa Cather. In the second place, I don't think the war was the spiritual father of any of these -- certainly it wasn't of Dreiser. His SISTER CARRIE was published, first, thirty years ago, in 1900! -- and it is characteristic of all his work." The one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER, from Austria, dated 9 December [1932], regards Rodman's initiating the magazine COMMON SENSE. In full: "Good luck to your magazine. But I haven't much optimism for it. I have seen far too many new periodicals started of late. And I don't see anything in your program that won't, between them, already be covered by NATION, NEW REPUBLIC, + NEW MASSES. But I shall be delighted if you prove me wrong." Accompanied by two envelopes hand addressed by Lewis. Selden Rodman was a prolific writer of creative and critical works, an editor of several important anthologies, and a co-editor of the socialist magazine COMMON SENSE. We in years past had a collection of letters from Robert Lowell to Rodman that also showed signs of surviving a fire. Both long letters are scorched in the margins to varying degrees, the handwritten one with some loss of letters. Both envelopes are also scorched. Condition ranges from Fair to Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 019823
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