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Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, U.S.A., 1925.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Dark blue cloth hardcover boards with orange title block. Stated fifth printing (June 1925). Boards with heavy wear; edges torn and frayed; pages dusty with age toning. Fair only. Harry Sinclair Lewis, (1885 - 1951) was an American novelist and social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., New, 1925.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fiction 1st Trade Edition. Front cover has loose binding.
Seller: BROWNVILLE EDUCATION CENTER FOR THE ARTS, BROWNVILLE, NE, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fiction 1st Trade Edition.
Seller: BROWNVILLE EDUCATION CENTER FOR THE ARTS, BROWNVILLE, NE, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt Brace, 1925.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Printing/first trade edition (First Edition was a limited run of signed copies). Light rubbing to cloth. Name in ink to front end paper and title page.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York; Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. Stated Second Printing (first trade edition,) January 1925. Preceded only by a signed First Edition on handmade paper limited to 500 copies. Octavo; 448pp. Blue buckram with red lettering and accents. Missing dust jacket. Boards frayed at spine ends with bumping to corners and some general dulling and smudging to surface. Rear hinge cracked and book opens easily to between gatherings with cloth arching unglued down spine, but binding is still holding. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Pages toned but otherwise unmarked.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. New York Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First trade edition after the limited edition. 448 pages. Some fraying to corners and spine ends. Scattered rubbing to covers. Some light rubbing to edges. Light yellowing to endpapers and flyleaves. Binding feels a tad loose. Interior otherwise very good. (P3)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith. Harcourt Brace, 1925.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing (first trade edition) January 1925. First edition consisted of only 500 copies, numbered and signed by author. Clean and bright, couple of loosening hinges, but still very much intact. A good honest copy of this edition of a rare book. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details – only too pleased to help!
Seller: A Book Is Forever, Pershore, United Kingdom
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt Brace, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Second printing, which is the stated first trade edition Very good/no dj (spine a little dulled and rumpled; no owner marks)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
HARRISON, Oliver. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small hardcover. 28 pages. One of only 500 copies printed for "presentation to the American Booksellers Convention Chicago 1925." A brief biography of the author of "Arrowsmith," "Babbitt" and numerous other classics. Lewis went on to win the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature. Includes 7 black and white images with one tipped in plate. A clean near fine copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine with printed paper label affixed to the front cover. No dust jacket as issued. A lovely copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, NY, 1925.
Price: US$78.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated Second Printing (first trade edition,) January 1925. Blue buckram with red lettering and accents. Boards frayed at spine ends with bumping to corners and some general dulling and smudging to surface. 448pp. Pages can include limited notes, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions.
Seller: Denali Bay, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1925.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Printing/first trade edition (First Edition was a limited run of signed copies), This copy is from the first trade edition and is not signed. Octavo, blue cloth over boards stamped in orange. Sinclair's remarkable novel follows a young doctor as he moves across the country, facing tough personal and professional decisions and offering a thorough commentary on the state of medicine in the 1920s. Very good, spine slightly faded, no dust jacket.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace, 1925.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing [first trade edition] January, 1925. Hardcover with bright cover showing moderate wear to spine area. Pages clean. Binding tight.
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$98.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First trade edition, second printing. Blue boards with orange. Some surface soil and rubbing. Spine sunned, spine ends have tearing, fraying. Small hole in center of spine cloth. Corners rubbed. Pages toned, scattered light foxing, mostly on end papers and page edges. A few dents in top page edges. Starting at title page and binding edge of inside back paste-down.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Second Printing, the First Trade Edition (January, 1925), issued after a Limited Edition of 500 copies (all stated). Dark blue cloth binding, with ruling and titling in orange. Clean text; 448 pages. Spine is slightly darkened, a tiny bit of wear at the tips, and the front cover is cracked but holding. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. First Trade. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair.. Arrowsmith.. Grosset and Dunlap [1925], New York, 1925.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Reproduced from the Harcourt Brace sheets and the HB copyright page, this is the first reprint edition, identically bound in dark blue cloth stamped in orange, in the blue, white and black dustwrapper of the regular trade edition. Book is Fine, with some mild discoloration spots to fore-edge. jacket is only Very Good, with moderate edgewear, small loss to spine-ends. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (which Lewis refused to accept), and was made into a movie in 1931, directed by John Ford, with Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes, with a screenplay by Sidney Howard. Q08587
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt Brace & Co., NY, 1925.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover , FIRST EDITION.Book has splits at inner hinges, P/O bookplate.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ARROWSMITH. , 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1925]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Trade Edition, preceded only by a 500-copy limited edition. This was the third of Lewis's great novels of the decade, after MAIN STREET and BABBITT and before ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH. ARROWSMITH won the Pulitzer Prize, but Lewis declined the award. This is the tale of Martin Arrowsmith, medical doctor, who settles first in Wheatsylvania, South Dakota, next in Nautilus, Iowa, then in Chicago, and finally at a research clinic in New York City -- "hoping to find in altruistic research the relief he desires from publicity-seeking and money-grabbing commercial medicine" [OCAL]. But he falls out of favor when he administers his cure for a plague indiscriminately, in order to save lives, thus ruining the results of the experiment -- and ultimately winds up back in rural America, this time in Vermont. This copy is in very good condition (the usual fading of the spine, minor edge-wear, slight cracking of the front endpaper). [Note: this copy came to us with a facsimile dust jacket, curiously NOT of a first edition, which we shall pass along if a buyer wishes.].
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith [Review copy]. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Stated First Trade Edition, First Printing. 5 x 7.5in. 448pp. Publisher's cloth boards. A review or publisher archival copy with the Harcourt, Brace and Co. "To Be Published" stamp on the front endpaper. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, spine lightly tanned, handsome former owner bookplate at the front paste-down, endpapers lightly toned, back hinge neatly repaired, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First trade printing after a signed limited edition of 500 copies. Tipped in before the title page is an autographed note (a bit smaller than the page size) "To Ortho Ball, perhaps the most charming doctor I've ever known. This diatribe on doctors" dated and SIGNED by Sinclair Lewis. The volume has bumped corners, softened spine ends, some front panel soiling, a lightly toned spine with the spine orange a shade less intense than the front panel, and an uneven application of glue which has created a relief indentaion on the spine. The interior has gentle page toning and a small bookseller's label on the base of the rear pastedown.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith [Signed]. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$1075.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with light soiling and rubbing. Lacking original slipcase; near fitting slipcase supplied by previous owner. Provided slipcase is in fair condition with two broken seams, rubbing and chipping. 1/4 cream cloth with gilt top edge; in slipcase
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Lewis (Sinclair). Arrowsmith.. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1925). First edition, signed issue., 1925.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Gray-blue paper boards, cream cloth spine with printed paper label. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in red & black. A nice clean copy, about fine, in a worn and repaired slipcase which is missing the top. The printed spine label is yellowed and has some discoloration, BUT the extra spine label is still tipped-in at the rear, and it is in as-new condition. Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies, this is #11. Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which Lewis declined to accept.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
LEWIS, Sinclair [1885-1951].. Arrowsmith.. New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, [1925]., 1925.
Price: US$1665.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 448. with half-title. contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut (modest wear to joints & extremities, spine faded, internally fine). First Edition, one of 500 numbered copies, signed by the Author. Lewis was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction for this novel in 1926, but refused to accept it. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace And Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: 448 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 380 of 500 signed by Lewis: becoming the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. H.L. Mencken called him "a red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." This title discusses the travail faced of an idealistic physician. His literary reputation waned at the end of his career and was renewed in the early twentieth century -- primarily for his dystopian satire, "It Can't Happen Here," an appropriate parallel to the rise of Donald Trump. Crisp copy, small nicks to left side of spine paper label. Orig. publisher's beige nubby cloth and slate blue boards. Teg. Fine in worn slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1925.
Price: US$2999.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited edition, #342/500. This copy was signed twice--once to the colophon page and once to the ffep in an inscription to Harvey Taylor, who was an agent, book scout, and possibly con man who contributed a faulty bibliography of Lewis included in a biographical sketch of Lewis by Carl Van Doren. Bookplate to front pastedown, inner hinges cracking/mesh showing at front eps. Acetate DJ, wrinkled on front panel, and lightly rubbed black slipcase included. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt Brace & Co., NY, 1925.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, FIRST EDITION. Blue holland boards, cream cloth spine, with paper spine label, plain endpapers. A Beautiful copy - looks to be UNREAD. Binding is very tight , clean boards, no marks. Limited SIGNED First edition, copy # 423 of 500. SIGNED COPY. Comes in Dark Blue Slipcase, with additional paper spine label in rear of book - Never used on the slipcase. Slipcase is split / separated on end of case.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. Arrowsmith. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 500 numbered and signed copies; a nearly fine copy in a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, 'To Ronald Colman who to me is Martin Arrowsmith/ Sinclair Lewis/ Beverly Hills/ April 12, 1939.' Colman played the title role in John Ford's 1931 motion picture, which also starred Helen Hayes and Myrna Loy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition with "Second printing [first trade edition]" stated on the copyright page. Exceptionally rare original first issue dust jacket with the $2.00 price present on the front flap. Measures approximately 7.5" x 5", with 448 numbered pages. The book is in near fine condition. Very minor wear to the edges. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Interior pages are bright and well preserved. The dust jacket is in very good plus condition. Minor edgewear and chipping to the spine ends. Small closed tears to the top and bottom edges of the front and rear panels. Numerous old and unnecessary tape repairs to the verso of the dust jacket, not visible under mylar. "Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis deals with the culture of science in a fictional setting. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# (N12-72).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
LEWIS Sinclair. Arrowsmith. , 1925.
Price: US$14000.00 + shipping
Description: "LEWIS, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1925). Octavo, original buckram spine, blue paper boards, original printed paper label, top edge gilt, uncut. $14,000.Signed limited first edition of what many consider Lewis' greatest novel, number 1 of only 500 large-paper copies signed by him. An excellent association copy, owned by Ellen Knowles Eayrs-Harcourt, wife of Lewis' publisher Alfred Harcourt, who in a page and a half inscription describes advancing Lewis and his friend, science writer Paul de Kruif, $1000 from her personal account for de Kruif to get married before the two men set out for a year-long trip to research the book that would become Arrowsmith, with the check she made out to de Kruif endorsed on the verso by both Lewis and de Kruif tipped to the front pastedown."Using for his theme the losing fight made by two men with whom scientific truth is religion, Mr. Lewis draws a picture for us that is disquieting in its disillusionment Arrowsmith is a pagan novel for a pagan world an authentic step forward" (Books of the Century, 63-64). Although Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis declined the honor, purportedly because Main Street (1921) had not been so honored. His rejection, however, also secured front-page status for this satire of the medical profession in the nation's newspapers. While Lewis is credited as the sole author, he was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales. Adapted to the screen in 1931 by director John Ford.This is the copy of Ellen Knowles Eayrs, wife of Lewis' publisher Alfred Harcourt. In 1922, when the events Eayrs recounts in her inscription occurred, she was Harcourt's secretary; she and Harcourt did not marry until 1924, the year prior to this novel's publication, after Harcourt's first wife committed suicide in 1923. In this copy, Eayrs has penciled a lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper recto and verso: "When Red Lewis planned to write a novel about a scientist he persuaded Paul de Kruif, who was just leaving the Rockefeller Institute, to spend a year with him roaming around the West Indies, South America & Europe so that the book should have genuine scientific material and point of view. Paul at the time was engaged to Rhea Barbarin who was living in Michigan and was anxious to marry her before he left but he hadn't a cent to his name. Three days before Red & Paul were to sail, they blew into the Harcourt Brace office to see if they could get an advance immediately so that he could take a 2:30 train to Michigan. No officer of the firm was in so I gave them my personal check which both of them endorsed and Paul got the cash from the Fifth Ave. Bank in New York City. He & Rhea were married on my $1000 and have certainly lived happily ever afterward. EKE-EKH." ("EKH" indicating that she wrote this inscription at some point after marrying Harcourt.) With the original check for $1000, endorsed on the verso by both Lewis and de Kruif, tipped to the front pastedown. Issued on the same day as the stated second (first trade) edition. Without scarce glassine and slipcase. With spare paper spine label tipped to rear flyleaf. Pastore 9. Bruccoli & Clark III:213. With Eayrs' penciled signature on the front flyleaf.Front inner paper hinge expertly reinforced, text clean, light rubbing to board edges, slight toning to spine. An extremely good copy, with an appealing association."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy seldom seen with this rare dustjacket. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the spine. The book is bound in the publisher's blue cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book.A wonderful copy with this First Issue dustjacket that seems to be missing in most Pulitzer collections.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.