Dodsworth

Description: The Book House in Dinkytown presents ... Dodsworth ISBN:9997412370 Author:Lewis, Sinclair Publisher:Harcourt Brace and Company Release Date:1929 Seller Category:Literature Qty Available:1 Condition:Collectible: Very Good Sku: 276414 Notes: First edition. Harcourt Brace, "Published March, 1929". Near fine copy in blue cloth with orange print and title panels on spine and front board. Later state anomalous Nobel Prize jacket (Nobel Prize was awarded in 1930). "Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore Minneapolis" bookseller tag in rear. Jacket is good+ with chipping at bottom edge of front panel, and light creasing and a closed tear at right side of head. Jacket has no price, only 1029 at top corner. It does have the short Mencken review at top of front flap, and Rebecca West at the bottom, both in italic. Oddly, the jacket fits the first edition perfectly. The usual Nobel Prize edition (also dated 1929 without the month)is a different binding and size. Lewis was the "First American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature". This distinction is printed across the front of the dust jacket, with a circular emblem of a prize ribbon. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters" in his 5 most notable works to that date: Main Street (1920); Babbitt (1922); Arrowsmith (1925); Mantrap (1926); Elmer Gantry (1927); The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928); and Dodsworth (1929). Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!

Price: 300 USD

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

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