Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Piece(s) of the spine missing. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Co., N.Y., 1927.
Price: US$7.19 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Prior owner's name on Fep. Blue Boards with orange lettering for the author's name. Title in blue lettering on an orange back ground. 432 pages. There is shelf wear to the bottom edges of boards as well as the spine. The orange back ground for lettering of the title has been worn away in the top 1/4, however the lettering is still more legible than not. Corners of the boards are slightly worn & bumped. There are 2 fray marks on the front right edge of the spine. The rear left corner of the cover has a water stain which has only slightly affected the last 3 pages of the text at the very bottom, so legibility is not affected.
Seller: Thomas F. Pesce', Anaheim, CA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace, 1927.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No DJ. 4th printing March, 1927. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Book slightly shelf-cocked. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. NY Harcourt Brace (1927)., 1927.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: G. The infamous preacher played by Burt Lancasster in the movie. Blue binding, orange title block. Binding rubbed, edge wear. 3rd ptg edition.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Facsimile of the original for the Book-of-the-Month Club. The dust jacket has a closed tear at the bottom edge of the back flap and is in new mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: funyettabooks, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1927.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No additional printings indicated. Wear, aging, soiling to covers. Rubbing to titles. Binding is firm. Slight weakness to hinges. Considerable toning to text block. Name & date (1927) on front pastedown; soiling at ends; otherwise interior is evenly toned, free of markings. Slight vertical waviness at center of pages.
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co, NY, 1927.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: dj w/lite chipping in mylar; black c w/black titles on orange ; 432 clean, unmarkied pages; early BOMC, book club Size: 12 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry -- 1st State. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cover faded and lettering/deco rubbed. Binding shaken . Owner inscription; 6 X 4 X 2 inches
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cover is worn and mottled. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This copy is an early printing, but not a first edition. All corners bent inward as well as the head and foot of spine. No fraying of the cloth. Owner's name, date pencilled lightly on fep. Otherwise unmarked. Text has yellowed with age, solid in binding. Very light spotting of the edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1927.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Cover shows minor wear. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. No dj. Pages tanned.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Company; (1927), NY, 1927.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First edition with no dust jacket. Probably the second issue, although the orange square on the spine is somewhat rubbed and the "G" in the title is not clearly defined. The blue cloth is slightly soiled on the rear panel; a small bookseller's label is on the front pastedown. A tight, clean copy of this well known work.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, U.S.A., 1927.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Dark blue cloth hardcover boards with orange title block. First edition with 1927 on the copyright page with no later printings stated. Harcourt, Brace and Company printed on the spine with "G" in Gantry on the spine appearing as a "C". Boards with heavy wear; edges torn and frayed; rear hinge exposed; previous owner's stamp inside; 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.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace & Co., N.Y., 1927.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 432pp. The famous portrait of a "lovingly and pugnacious drunk." Former owner inscription inside front cover.
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1927.
Price: US$20.88 + shipping
Description: ELMER GANTRY, Harcourt Brace, 1927, first edition, just about a vg copy. Successfully filmed in 1960.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Company (1927), New York, NY, 1927.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Good, corners lightly bumped, spine slightly rubbed; Spine lettering resembles Cantry. Bookplate, inked note feps; First; Blue/orange cloth; 8vo; 432 p.; No DJ
Seller: Optical Insights, Murrieta, CA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Lacking dust jacket. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Name of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Company; (1927), NY, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Second issue of the first printing, with no dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with fairly bright orange stamping. Owner's stamp on front and rear endpapers, otherwise tight and clean.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair.. ELMER GANTRY.. Harcourt Brace & Company,, New York:, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardback early reissue with dark-blue and orange covers. Publisher's name at spine foot completely rubbed off and unreadable. Silverfishing along cover edges; spine slant, with spine ends frayed; hinges sound, uncracked but front hinge tad wobbly. Pages tight, clean, with at least one page showing one-inch tear at top edge (does not affect text). A. DeFord Pitney's distinctive black-and-white art deco bookplate affixed to front pastedown, with Billy Sunday Tabernacle contemporary newspaper ad glued to facing first free endpaper ("Trains stop at the doors of the Tabernacle"! ) with usual uneven browning due from newsprint. Lacks DJ. Not library discard. ;
Seller: Nelson & Nelson, Booksellers, Trenton, SC, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good Hardcover, no dustjacket, Blue Cloth cover with orange title
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair.. Elmer Gantry.. Harcourt, Brace and Company,, NY:, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A recent book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. This is a Fine copy of a facsimile edition of one of Lewis's greatest novels. There is no current publication date, only the original 1927. Reproduces the original binding in blue and orange cloth. Clean text; 432 pages. The striking dustjacket, in green, red, and black, has hints of edgewear only, else Fine. In an archival plastic protector. Rather a nice way to read this classic! Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$25.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Dark blue cloth cover, has orange stamp on front and spine. Boards show moderate amount of shelf wear, slightly worn and sunned spine with minimal crushing to the top and bottom. Pages show slight discoloration with a little bit of foxing in a couple areas of the book. This book is in fine condition. Sixth printing, April 1927
Seller: TNT ENTERPRIZES, Libertyville, IL, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair f. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace (1927), NY, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: VG book, no DJ. Only 4 flaws, spine ends w tiny tears (1/16"), tips rubbed, & the orange color on the cover has darkened some. Pastedowns w light glue browning, this has darkened their adjoining eps. VG book, no DJ. Spine "G" looks like "C".
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hinges loose. C not G on spine lettering. Owner emboss. Still decent.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair f. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace (1927), NY, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: VG book, no DJ. Only 4 flaws, spine ends w tiny tears (1/16"), tips rubbed, & the orange color on the cover has darkened some. Pastedowns w light glue browning, this has darkened their adjoining eps. VG book, no DJ. Spine "G" looks like "C".
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second issue binding of the first edition, with the "C" n the spine corrected to a "G". It still looks a lot like a C, but when compared to the first state, it is oviously different. Dark blue cloth with orange printing, border and title box, with the slightest lean, lightly faded spine and one small dot of lighter cloth on cover. Short closed tear at bottom of half title page. 432 pp. Fiction, classic.
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. ELMER GANTRY. HARCOURT BRACE, USA, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Harcourt, Brace & Co., USA, 1927, hardcover, good book given age with shelf wear, no jacket, ex-library otherwise unmarked, classic collective novel
Seller: MySEAbooks, Harlingen, TX, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry (FEL). Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Library Facsimile copy in slipcase. First Edition Library note included. Slipcase with some foxing and rubbing to boards. Dustjacket has a little waving but otherwise fine. A square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread.
Seller: La Playa Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1927.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd state. Light wear to cloth at corners. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1927.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd state. No jacket. Light rubbing to cloth.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace and Company, NY, 1927.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition first printing hardcover with C on spine instead of G Fine in fine facsimile dust jacket
Seller: bookroom, Livingston, TX, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine does not have a "C" like true first edition/printing. No d-j. Top edge has a few marks. Pages tanned. Threads showing next to title page. Front pastedown and FFEP have some light marks.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; second binding. A very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1927). Orgiinal . navy and orange cloth. Very good, no jacket. First issue binding.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc, New York, 1927.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: Thick 10mo; G; dark blue/yellowish orange spine with blue text; first edition, second state; no jacket; cloth's exterior shows some rubbing wear; slightly sunned spine; whitish spotting to rear, mostly to upper half, toward head edge; minor frays to spine edges; otherwise mildly rubbed edges; slight lean to spine; textblock exterior edges have age toned moderately; deckled fore edge; partial cracking to gutter at title page; endpapers have slightly age toned; cracking to gutter to pp 430-431; interior pages show general, slight toning; pp 432. 1351811. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth hardcover book in good condition, with dust jacket in poor condition, in mylar. This is an early printing of the 1927 1st edition, with 7 on copyright page indicating possible 7th impression. Cover shows usual shelf wear, some sunning at edges. Binding tight, pages very clean. DJ has large chips, missing edges, tears. Remains just intact. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.
Seller: Encore Books, Montreal, QC, Canada
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co. NY 1927, 1927.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: As new facsimile, high quality replica by The first edition library of the original first edition, first printing with all first state points of issue to book and dust jacket which are housed in publisher's illustrated slipcase, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. . * (This book is in our possession. We ship most books six days a week and will confirm with tracking number for domestic orders or customs number for non domestic) *
Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Co., NEW YORK, 1927.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A terrific copy. A contemporary facsimile reissue of the first printing, first state with "C" (instead of "G") on the spine. In a bright, near-perfect facsimile dust jacket.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 432 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Orange. First Printing (1927 On Copyright Page, No Additional Printings Noted). Second Binding With Miss-Spelling "Cantry" On Spine Corrected To "Gantry" By Means Of A Vertical Blue Line Overprinted From The Bottom End Of The "C". Covers Clean, Deep Blue, Hinges Tight, No Marks, Light Rubbing, All Lettering And Design Clear, All Color Present, Spine Not Faded Or Browned. No Names Or Marks. Pages Immaculate But Slightly Aged.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 432 1920's novel about Evangelism. very good, few bumps on cover, first edition
Seller: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). (1927)., 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). (1927). Good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in dark blue within tan rectangles on the front cover & spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped. The head of the spine is chipped & slightly frayed & the publisher's name at the tail of the spine is almost rubbed away. Half-title, title & 432 pages. The book is lightly cracked at the title. There is an owner's name on the front endpaper & a small area of the paper on the rear pastedown is rubbed away. There are small stains to the margins of a few pages & the page edges are slightly darkened. Good. First edition, first issue [with the "G" on the spine more like a "C"].
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 432 pp, a novel. First Edition, 1st state. Previous owner's name & date (3/12/27) inked on ffep. Fr cover and spine letters and design easily legible but faded a bit, cover cloth almost VG with only iminor wear to the bottom board edges, pages and paper age-toned some with no markings. In glassine wrapper. Size: Small Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. (8) 432 pp. First Edition: Second State, 1927. Not Price Clipped. Only the faintest edge wear to dj. Starting with lightly age-toned text block, else, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.5" x 7.75". Navy-blue cloth with gilt title plates, gilt and navy-blue lettering on front boards, and gilt lettering to front board, and navy-blue lettering to spine. Facsimile dj in acetate protector. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 1927.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, NY, 1927. Fourth Printing (stated with date of March, 1927) of First Edition with second state binding ("G" in Gantry on spine is a "G" not a "C"). Very Good with no dust jacket. Text Block has mild age toning but is intact, clean, straight, with deckled fore-edges, and unmarked except for minimal remains of ink mark to front free endpaper and erasure remains of prior owner's penciled name and date (7/13/27) to rear free endpaper. Binding is blue cloth with mustard yellow title block and author's name to front and spine, with slight spine lean, mild fading and bumped corners but intact. Hinges are good. 432 pages. 5 1/4" x 7 1/8". Note: the difference between the first issue and second issue bindings is small. First issue had a rounded bottom to making the "G" on the spine look like a "C". Second issue flattened the bottom very slightly and thinned the rising curve before the upright making a very small notch.
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bright orange lettering on the cover and spine. Second state with the "G" on the spine corrected. The DJ still has the original $2.50 price unclipped. The endpapers are darkening, no internal marks or writing. The DJ has much edgewear and chipping, some tape repairs, a good candidate for restoration. Still presents nicely in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wayward Books, south dartmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Cantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5.5" with 432 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Heavy scuffing and staining to both boards. Moderate foxing to top and bottom edges of texblock. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry, the protagonist, is attracted by drinking, making easy money (but he eventually renounces tobacco and alcohol) and chasing women. After various forays into smaller, fringe churches, he becomes a major moral and political force in the Methodist Church despite his hypocrisy and serial sexual indiscretions. 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# (N7-106).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, pages lightly age-toned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. ELMER GANTRY. NEW YORK NY HARCOURT BRACE AND CO PUB 1927., 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: VG/NONE. THIS IS THE SECOND STATE. BOOK'S SPINE IS COLOR FADED WITH ORANGE LETTERING AND DESIGN FADED BUT STILL VISIBLE WITH A SMALL SLIGHTLY LIGHTENED SPOT ON THE FRONT COVER. THIS IS A NICE TIGHT COPY OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: General wear to blue cloth boards. Rub and fading to spine. Edgewear to extremities. Top right corner bumped, corners rubbed and turned inward. Cracked hinge. Binding weakened. Tanning throughout and shadowing to endpapers.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$53.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Set in the 1920s, this classic novel satirizes American religious attitudes of the time. The story follows Gantry, a charismatic preacher with a secret love of vice. Refers to self in list of novels by author on half title verso. Condition notes: (x), 432 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled; a.e. sunned, eps toned. Cover: navy cloth, orange/reverse titles front/spine; modest shelfwear, extrems a bit worn especially head/tail, soil to back/spine, spine block a bit scratched. Early print but not first state.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: First state, with "Cantry" on spine. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth, stamped in orange; [viii],432pp. A sound, upright copy, spine sunned, cloth lightly dusty, gently rubbed, with mild foxing to endleaves: Very Good. Lacking the dust jacket. Lewis's anti-clerical novel whose advance copies were sent to clergymen across the country as part of an exceedingly successful publicity stunt. PASTORE 13; COAN, p. 169; HANNA 2170.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1/4 inch open tear at spine crown, top of rear panel, and middle of front gutter. Light shelf wear on rear panel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York. NY, 1927.
Price: US$58.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Text/Near New w/light soiling to pgs 32 & 33, and 2 folded corners. First Edition, 6th Printing of 1927. Blue & orange linen boards/VG; sound w/edge rubs to upper spine edge & trace surface wear. DJ/None. 1927 top-seller, 9th novel from Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951). Story of Elmer Gantry, a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister who eventually leads a large Methodist congregation. Perhaps the "best bad novel" written about the unholy alliance between moralism, media, and political power. 432 pgs in 33 chapters. Narrative follows the unattractive, opportunistic, lecherous Elmer Gantry in his travels all over the country, with attention to the many, often colorful and often pitiful people affected by him. Adapted to film 1960, starring Burt Lancaster (supported by Jean Simmons) as the smirking, leering lecher who tells off-color yarns with the same ease that he fingers the Good Book and shouts the name of Jesus.
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: a 1955 Facsimile of the Original First Edition/First Printing LIKE NEW and it has the book cover with the "G" in (Gantry) that looks like a "C" misprint that was corrected in later printings. Has the Facsimile Original Dustjacket in NEAR FINE Condition very minor corner wear in a protective Brodart Cover and is comes with a protective slipcase NEAR FIN has minor edge wear and flyer with info on this novel and author
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Company (1927), New York, 1927.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Richard Brooks). It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture.
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION and Printing of this classic novel; a Nobel in Literature, Prize winning author. Very Good - volume with a neat previous owner name and date (1927) on blank front free end-paper. Pre-lims are mildly foxed and margins are lightly age toned. Blue cloth with orange titles (cloth has a few vintage stains front and rear.) Spine cloth has a shallow crease and is sunned. Crown cloth is frayed and corners barely worn. Rear hinge is weak, but a tight text block. Lacking original jacket, but a new FACSIMILE of original dust jacket included, to make this title stand out on your book shelve. Priced to reflect blemishes. Mylar protected jacket.
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$64.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. A little edge wear, bumped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With "Gantry" not "Cantry" on the spine. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Uncut. Front inner hinge is weak at the title page. Previous owner's embossed name on the title page.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Navy blue covers with orange lettering on spine and front cover on this Book Club Edition, the stamp to lower back corner and without a price on DJ flap. Tight and clean, without previous owner's markings, and with the "G" on the spine looking like a "C". The DJ is VG++, showing light bottom corner wear along with light chipping to upper front corner and top of spine area. It's bright and clean and without spine fade. Protected in new archival sleeve.
Seller: Deborah Fiegl, Bookseller, Perry, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace And Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo (7-1/2" x 5") [viii], 432pp. Blue/orange cloth covers, spine ( C/G) faded. PO signature/date (1927) to free endpaper, upper hinge starting, rest of text block tight and unmarked.
Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first state binding. A couple of small stains on front board, else a near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. An attractive copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Scuffing and soiling to front and rear panels. Ink to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry (first edition). Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardcover, blue cloth with orange stamping for lettering and design, first edition, no printings listed other than copyright date of 1927 on copyright page, first issue with the letter "G" looking like a "C" on the spine, very good condition, rubbing on the orange on the spine but author's name and title remains visible, no dust jacket, previous owner's name and date on front endpaper, some age toning to pages, binding tight. Size: Octavo
Seller: Casa Paloma Books, Green Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Cantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5.5" with 432 numbered pages. This book is in fair condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Minor staining to spine. Moderate staining and scuffing to both boards. Front hinge cracked at title page. Rear hinge cracked at pastedown exposing mesh. Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry, the protagonist, is attracted by drinking, making easy money (but he eventually renounces tobacco and alcohol) and chasing women. After various forays into smaller, fringe churches, he becomes a major moral and political force in the Methodist Church despite his hypocrisy and serial sexual indiscretions. 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# (N7-107).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Co (1927), New York, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Basis for the film of the same name. Second-state binding with clear "G" in "GANTRY." Bookplate with Keats quote, "The poetry of earth is never dead," on front endpaper. Light marks on pastedowns where items previously removed, corner creases to few pages, otherwise very good to near fine lacking dust jacket. (FACSIMILE jacket provided).
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. Lewis wrote this controversial novel shortly prior to receiving the Nobel Prize. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition (no additional printings), in the first state with the "G" on the spine looking much like a "C." Dark blue cloth binding with titling in orange/blue; orange ruling on the front cover. Clean text; 432 pages. Very bright and fresh. Contemporary (1927) signature on the FFEP; tiny bookseller label on the rear paste-down. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Co., NY, 1927.
Price: US$75.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 432pp. Blue and orange cloth bindng. First issue, with "G" in Gantry on spine resembling a C. Slight wear. Clean, bright copy. Scan on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$78.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue cloth with orange borders and title block, and single date on the copyright page. Sinclair's award-winning and most famous novel, made into an Academy Award-winning film starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons. 'G' misspelled 'C' on spine. A solid, clean, tight and unmarked copy., free of edgewear Protected and enhanced by a thick Mylar plastic jacket.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace & Co, NEW YORK, 1927.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, second state with "G" on spine. Sturdy, vintage copy, basically clean, with tiny hole the size of a grain of rice penetrating the first 16 pages. Otherwise contents clean and unmarked. With mild discoloration on spine. Book is covered with a flawless facsimile jacket and looks terrific.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Co.: NY, 1927.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7.5 x 5", blue cloth, 432pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, spine a little cocked, contents toned and used, in a badly chipped and torn, incomplete, price-clipped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING ("C" on spine).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$86.85 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1927 Harcourt Brace FIRST EDITION with no additional printings listed. This Book is in VG+ condition with dark blue cover and bright orange background of title and Lewis's name and on spine. Some aging along page edges but very clean inside. The Spine's title reads Elmer "C"antry but there is scuffing and it is a bit hard to see. The HB has very minor wear at the corners and spine ends. Made into best selling movie starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones who both won Oscars-- Brenbooks specializes in first edition books made into movies!
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace, NY, 1927.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 432. One hinge tender, no dj, o/w VG. First Edition, second issue with spine with a "G" in "Gantry".
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. 12mo. Very good with offsetting on front fly, half-title page, spine faded in good only price clipped dustwrapper with one inch piece torn off on spine head and small nicks on edges. First American to receive The Nobel Prize for Literature.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair.. Elmer Gantry.. New York: Harcourt, Brace., 1927.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 432 pp. Very Good, Blue Decorative Cloth with minimal sun-fading, rubbing, & edge wear on boards; spine somewhat slanted. Provenance: John Ruyle. First Edition: Third Printing.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, First Edition, Second State with corrected "G" on spine, 1927 Harcourt Brace and Company 432 pages. Very Good, in a new facsimile DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to dark blue cloth boards, front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. - corners sharp. Spine is slightly darkened. Housed in a brand new facsimile DJ which is just stunning. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. deckled edges. Basis for the 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster) and Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones). A very handsome collectible copy of an American classic. LOC SS-FB-03
Seller: Eyebrowse Books, MWABA, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 432 pp. Navy cloth binding with raised orange and navy design to front cover. A very good copy of the first printing with Gantry mis-spelled on the spine. Spine is a bit rubbed, otherwise a square, clean copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 432pp; navy blue cloth with orange stamping. First-state binding with "C" on spine. No ownership name or markings; no library stamps. Contents clean and textually unmarked.
Seller: JBK Books, North Manchester, IN, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, second state binding. A touch of rubbing, else near fine lacking the dust jacket. An attractive copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Co., NY, 1927.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy of the true first edition of this book, with the "G" on the spine looking more like a "C". Fitted with a facsimile dust jacket (price-clipped), that fits the book perfectly. 432 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, NY, 1927.
Price: US$122.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Published July 1927. First edition, 7th printing. Originally published March 1927. Hardcover without jacket. Little sunned to spine and little rubbing to spine ends. Little soiling to top edges. A small owner's ink stamp to a corner. Untrimmed fore edges. Else, tight spine and strong hinge, unmarked. 432 pp
Seller: GoldBookShelf, Burlington, ON, Canada
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Co., N Y, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book VERY GOOD endpapers toned, spine sunned with some fading to letters near toe of spine, rubbing to rear panel; dust jacket FAIR 1 3/4" wide extending to 1 3/4" deep chip beginning at middle of toe of spine and extending to front panel eliminating the last few letters of "Company" on the spine, 1" deep triangular chip at head of spine eliminating the letters "EL" of "Elmer", 3 other smaller chips, 1 3/8" tear at top of rear panel.
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first binding. About a fine copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company / The Quinn and Boden Co., Inc., 1927.
Price: US$131.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state (G in Gantry corrected from looking like a C, as in first state). Lacks scarce jacket. Boards lightly soiled, page edges faintly foxed. 1927 Hard Cover. 432 pp. 8vo. Sinclair Lewis went on to become the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930), following the success of his 1925 novel Arrowsmith, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Lewis declined the award). Elmer Gantry is "a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion that caused an uproar upon its publication in 1927. The title character of Elmer Gantry starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites, including Mrs. Evans Riddle, Judson Roberts, and Sharon Falconer, with whom he becomes romantically involved. Although he is often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited." -- Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., 432 pages; VG; bound in blue cloth, orange rectangle on spine with blue lettering; mild shelfwear; first state, with letter "G" in "Gantry" on spine looking like a "C"; some age-toning to pages; NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1289066. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 432 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in blue cloth, orange rectangle on spine with blue lettering. Boards have bending to spine edges and mild shelf wear. Textblock has light age toning and bookplate on front pastedown. First state with letter "G" in "Gantry" on spine looking like a "C". Shelved Case 2. 1376393. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1927.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 432 pp. Cloth, no dw, lower hinge giving, else very good copy. (85788). First issue with 'C' rather than 'G' in spine title.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, 1927.
Price: US$154.46 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Brand New!
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis, first edition, 1927, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. Blue cloth cover with orange title and authors name. Title on the spine shows the substantial first edition error with the G in Gantry appearing as a C. NO DJ. Previous owners name written on the front end paper in ink. Some separation apparent on the title page. Small tears at the top of the title page and the page that follows. Paper is not missing, but it is torn. Corners bumped. Minor discoloration on the rear board. 432 pages that are unmarked but have begun to yellow after 97 years.
Seller: Russell Street Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., dark blue cloth with orange box with the lettering reversed, slightly soiled. First edition, second state, with "Gantry" on the spine. A bright copy of Lewis's classic work.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in good plus dust jacket. First edition, first state, with "C" instead of "G" in Gantry on board spine. Dark blue cloth covered boards with orange text and graphics on front panel and spine. Small amount of bubbling under cloth near center of front panel. Very light rubs on spine but text is not affected. Crimping along edges at head and tail of board spine with light rubs on the corners and tips. Tiny rubs to fore-edge corner tips with lower front right tip just rubbed through. Foxing to outer page edges. Glue transfer to paste-downs and end-papers and beginnings of foxing. Internal pages are clean and text block is sound. Very fragile dust jacket is soiled overall, more so on the spine and back panel. Significant loss at head and tail of jacket spine and fore-edge corners. Additional loss along upper and lower edges of front and back panels. Fore-edge folds are heavily rubbed and are separating from front and back panels. Several large closed tears, additional chips and numerous creases along upper and lower edges. Inside flaps corners are similarly clipped but price of $2.50 is intact on the lower edge of front flap. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, second state binding with G(antry) on spine. No additional printing noted on copyright page. A very bright, tight copy. Former owner (C. H. Land) signature in light sepia ink on front endpaper. Very good, bright jacket is unclipped and has no price. We assume it to be a facsimile. Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore bookmark in rear.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first binding. Very good in a heavily worn, chipped, and mended dust jacket. 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. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$184.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards. Spine cocked. Edge wear and soiling. Pages toned throughout. Hinges starting. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, NY, 1927.
Price: US$187.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NYC: Harcourt, 1927. 1st edition (1st state - "C" for "G" in Gantry on spine of book), NF/G. Book has gift inscription of FFE, initials on bottom of front paste-down, light wear to boards. DJ has chipping on spine end (not affecting any letters), 4" X 2 1/2" piece missing on upper rear panel, chipping & closed tears on other edges & flaps, $2.50 price on inside of front flap, chip on lower front corner, front fold is weak but still connected. Subject for film starring Burt Lancaster.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry [Cantry on the spine]. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Binding With "Cantry" On Spine. Covers Clean, Hinges Tight, No Marks. Light Wear, No Foxing, No Names Or Marks. Nice copy in a quarter-leather slipcase and chemise.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt, 1927. First edition second state with corrected "G" on spine. Very good. Stamp on inside front board (pastedown) "Sinclair Lewis Museum Opened July 1, 1960", the year that Elmer Gantry was finally made into an award winning movie, with Bert Lancaster. A collectible copy in acetate jacket. Perhaps Lewis' most controversial book, Elmer Gantry depicted a deeply hypocritical evangelical minister. The novel was denounced by many religious leaders and banned in some U.S. cities. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original blue cloth, printed in orange lettering on cover and spine. First issue with the "G" on the spine appearing as a "C." A very good plus copy with covers and spine bright, no writing no bookplates, small ownership label on rear pastedown. Rarely encountered thus.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Has the C on the spine and a tiny white scratch on the front of the jacket, Clean and bright as if never read.
Seller: ProPen, Arcata, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, 1927.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Navy and orange boards show wear, some "bubbling" on front cover. Pages ivoried. G on spine appears as C, but I will provide photos for verification.
Seller: Escape Routes Used Books, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first state binding. A touch of rubbing, else near fine lacking the dust jacket. An attractive copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Co. New York, 1927.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover good in professional reproduction dust jacket; hinges are loose but still attached, visible tape repair to title page at spine junction, owner name on front free endpaper, lite toning/soiling/foxing to text, minor rubbing to board edges else a square unmarked copy in mint reproduced dust jacket; first printing with the weak "G" on the cloth spine; basis for the classic 1960 Burt Lancaster film of the same name
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo., dark blue cloth with orange box with the lettering reversed. First edition, first issue with "Gantry" spelled "Cantry" on the spine. A bright copy of Lewis's classic work.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. , 1927.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1927]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition of Lewis's scathing satire about a fraudulent itinerant preacher (shades of Bakker and Swaggart!) -- since immortalized on the screen by Burt Lancaster. This was the fourth of Lewis's five great novels of the 1920s -- preceded by MAIN STREET, BABBITT and ARROWSMITH, and succeeded by DODSWORTH. When ELMER GANTRY was published, a minister in Virginia invited Lewis to come down and be lynched, and one in New Hampshire tried to have him jailed. [K&H] This copy is in the second binding state, with the spine plainly reading "GANTRY" (in the first state, the "G" resembles a "C"). Just about fine condition (a little faint speckling of the rear cover cloth). [Note: this copy came to us with a facsimile first-issue dust jacket, which we shall pass along if a buyer wishes.].
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$229.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Front hinge cracked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Edge wear. Soiling to front and rear panels. Binding loose. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue and orange cloth. First Edition, First Printing with “Cantry” on the spine spelled with a “C.” Important novel of a spellbinding, hypocritical preacher who has become the standard of corrupt fundamentalism. Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, three years after the publication of this book. The film based on this book starred a brilliant Burt Lancaster in the lead role, who won an Oscar for his performance. Previous owner’s name and a notation in ink, Very Good. Lacking the Dust Jacket.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: a near fine copy in the original blue and orange cloth in a fair to good dj, not price clipped, but a large chip missing in rear and some chips, original price of 2.50 This is the famous novel, by America's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. This is the basis of one of the great films in the history of cinema, starring Burt Lancaster of Elmer Gantry, the role which won him the Oscar for Best actor in 1960. Shirley Jones and Jean Simmons co starred. The novel of a latter day fundamentalist preacher circa the roaring 20's and his rise and fall, and of his many adventures and repressions. A Modern masterpiece of Freud and Christ and the modern age of anxiety, man in search of his soul. rare in 1st state with the C on the spine and not the later corrected G on the spine. "Elmer Gantry (1927) attacked hypocrisy in the church. Gantry begins his career as a relatively sincere divinity student who is troubled by his strong sexual nature, but he becomes a hypocritical minister and, later, a jackleg traveling evangelist. Some ministers of the day approved of the book as an attack on genuine abuses within their profession, and literary gadfly H. L. Mencken praised its satire of corrupt fundamentalism. Many critics, however, viewed the book as obscene and its satire as overdone." (American Dictionary of National Biography). Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, just three years after the publication on Elmer Gantry.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt Brace (1927), New York, 1927.
Price: US$281.30 + shipping
Description: First state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Richard Brooks). It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture. About Fine in a Good, unrestored example of the dustwrapper which is soiled with a few short tears, and two small holes on the spine. The dustwrapper is almost completely reinforced internally with brown tape
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First state, G appearing as C. A near fine example of the book. Dust jacket bears slight wear to the base of the spine, and some rubbing to the orange stamping on the spine and the front panel. Chips to the edges. Chips to the top edge, three quarters on an inch by three quarters, and at the top of the spine three quarters of an inch deep and an inch wide. There is a large chip to the base of the spine extending its width and penetrating an inch and a half deep. The first edition, published by Harcourt Brace in 1927.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$329.95 + shipping
Description: Hard cover. 8vo. First edition with "Cantry" on spine. Soiund boards and binding. Unmarked text. Shelf wear to spine. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: History Bound LLC, Mendota, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing, first state (Spine has a "G" that looks like a "C"). Original blue cloth with orange decorative border and orange stencled lettering on the front cover and the spine. Dust jacket is priced at $2.50. There is one large 1 inch chip to the bottom left of the front panel, minor chips elsewear at the edges. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. A good gift. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace And Company, Inc., New York, 1927.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt, Brace And Company, Inc., 1927, 432 pgs, presumed first edition and first printing, no other edition or printing stated. Dark blue cloth boards with title and author in orange and blue on front and spine. Gantry on spine is spelled with a "G". Book is in VG+ condition. Boards have bowed somewhat over the years but show very little rubbing or scuffing. Orange background behind lettering is still very bright. Binding is still sound and straight, though cracked at front gutter. There is some crimping to the cloth at head and toe of spine but does not appear torn. Very light edge wear, with some bumping to top corners and bottom corners have curled in. Pages are complete, intact and unmarked. Some foxing to the end papers and some toning to the internal pages but still clear and legible. Lightly penciled initials of previous owner on FE. Cover is in poor condition, numerous tears and chips but remains in one piece. This book will be boxed for shipment, specific requests for carrier/class of service can be accommodated for additional shipping fee. LGYHC202011097
Seller: Private Label Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Elmer Gantry. Lewis, Sinclair. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Harcourt Brace and Company in 1927. Bound in the blue cloth with orange lettering that Harcourt and Brace utilized on Lewis's novels. A near fine example of the boo with a small owner's stamp ( James Scott ) to the front end paper. Dust jacket very good with some sections of paper loss to the top of the front panel. Some smaller chips elsewhere to both panels and a small, nailhed sized, chip to base of spine.The sections of paper loss are roughly an inch and a half wide, and penetrate to a maximum depth of approximately one half of an inch. There is a tear at the terminus of each. One of those titles, along with Main Street, in the Lewis canon likely to enssure Lewis's standing in American literature.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, NY, 1927.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue, with "Gantry" spelled "Cantry" on the spine. Publisher's full navy cloth with reverse panel in orange on cover and spine, fore-edge deckle. . Minor shelf-wear, some light foxing to edges of a few pages, front hinge just starting, upper board slightly bowed, else fine; unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 432 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company [1927], New York, 1927.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: First issue with "Cantry" misprinted on cloth spine. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in green decorative dust jacket printed in black and red; [8],432pp. Jacket extremities quite worn with several losses, the largest measuring approx. 1x1" at bottom edge of upper jacket panel affecting the "Le" in "Lewis," some minor tape repair to verso; narrow strip has been excised from blank of upper jacket flap; still, Very Good in Good or better jacket. Contemporary bookplate with text in Greek and Roman letters mounted to front pastedown. Lewis's anti-clerical novel whose advance copies were sent to clergymen across the country as part of an exceedingly successful publicity stunt. PASTORE 13; COAN, p. 169; HANNA 2170.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The correct Binding with the 'G' of GANTRY looking more like a 'C'. Some mild cover wear else somewhere between Very Good and Near Fine in an attractive jacket with a postage stamp sized chip missing from the spine/front panel. Short tear and associated stress mark and two quite small chips missing from the top of the front panel. 1" tear w/ quite minor chipping to the bottom of the spine panel. Somewhat dusty rear panel. A pretty bright and clean jacket overall, with much less chipping than usually encountered. Once again, not quite Near Fine, but better than Very Good!
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1927.
Price: US$464.00 + shipping
Description: ELMER GANTRY, Harcourt Brace, 1927, first edition (first issue binding with "C" for "G" on spine panel), fine in worn, chipped but still not unpleasing dust-wrapper with inner mending at the folds. Successfully filmed in 1960.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Compny, 1927.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good hardcover without dustjacket,1927,1st.edition,I think it may be the 1st.printing with the G of Gantry like a C on the spine,Also a softcover very good Dell S10,with 60 cent price,stated first printing,July 1960.a great classic 1st.edition,we are professional booksellers,100% refund,X11,e-mail if interested
Seller: born again books, henderson, NV, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first binding. A very good copy in a good dust jacket with extensive chipping along the top edge. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1927.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Second Isssue. Novel of a preacher immortalized by the 1960 Richard Brook's directed film starring Burt Lancaster. Near Fine bright copy in Very Good plus dustjacket, small chips at top front panel and spine ends.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Co, 1927.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover wrapped with mylar dust jacket. Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket: Very Good First Edition; Octavo; First Issue with spine lettered "Cantry" rather than "Gantry". 432 pages bound in blue cloth; Lettered, ruled and blocked in orange.
Seller: Ultra Premium Classics, Marstons Mills, MA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1927.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Second Issue, with Gantry at spine with "G". Novel of a preacher immortalized by the 1960 Richard Brook's directed film starring Burt Lancaster. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends and few edges, few short closed tears.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1927.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. First issue with the spine lettered "Cantry" rather than "Gantry" 432pp Bound in blue cloth lettered, ruled and blocked in orange. In lightly worn dust jacket with a tiny circular piece cut away from front flap (price). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. ELMER GANTRY. NEW YORK NY HARCOURT BRACE AND CO PUB 1927., 1927.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: VG+/NVG. FIRST ISSUE WITH "G"THAT APPEARS AS "C" EXTERNALLY THE BOOK IS VERY NICE BUT THE PUBLISHER'S NAME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINE IS VERY RUBBED AND THEREFORE BARELY VISIBLE WITH AUTHOR AND TITLE ON SPINE ONLY MODESTLY RUBBED AND STILL SHARPLY VISIBLE WITH A VERY FAINT DAMP SPOT NEAR THE FRONT COVER'S BOTTOM FORE-EDGE CORNER. THE INTERIOR IS ALSO VERY NICE BUT THERE IS A SHADOW FROM A LAID-IN CLIPPINGS ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER AND THE HALF-TITLE THAT ALSO AFFECTS FACING PAGE. D.J. HAS SOME LOSS AT AND AROUND THE CROWN OF THE SPINE THAT ONLY SLIGHTLY AFFECTS THE "E" IN "ELMER" AND RUNS IN A JAGGED FASHION FOR 3 1/2" ALONG THE TOP WITH THE GREATEST DEPTH OF 7/8" ON THE REAR PANEL ADJACENT TO THE SPINE EDGE. THERE IS A SIMILAR PIECE MISSING AT THE SPINE HEEL THE PARTIALL AFFECTS THE "D" IN "AND" AND THE "C" IN "COMPANY" OF THE PUBLISHERS NAME. THIS LOSS IS ABOUT 3 3/4" IN LENGTH AND AT ONE POINT WITH A DEPTH OF 3/4". THERE IS ALSO A 3/4" TRIANGULAR PIECE MISSING AT THE BOTTOM FORE EDGE CORNER OF THE FRONT PANEL THAT IS ABOUT ONE INCH LONG AT THE JACKET'S EDGE. THERE ARE A FEW LENGTHY TEARS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPERTLY AND NEAR SEAMLESSLY REPAIRED WITH HEAT-SET TISSUE, AND THERE IS SOME RUBBING TO THE REAR PANEL. DESPITE NOTED FLAWS THE DUST JACKET IS SUPRISINGLY PRESENTABLE. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York,USA, 1927.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first state binding with "Cantry" on spine. Original jacket shows minimal age toning with a bit of really expert restoration to the top of the jacket spine. Restoration is only visible from the verso! Pages are tanned and clean; trace of rubbing to spine lettering. A NEAR FINE copy in a VERY GOOD+ jacket. More photos on request!
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue with "Gantry" spelled "Cantry" on the spine. Endpapers slightly toned, a fine copy in about very good dustwrapper with several internal tape repairs, very small, shallow chips at the spine ends, and a light erasure on the front panel. Despite several flaws a presentable copy of a notable novel about a corrupt evangelist, memorably filmed with Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones, who both won Oscars, as did director Richard Brooks for the screenplay.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair.. Elmer Gantry.. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 432 pp. 8vo, publisher' blue cloth. First edition, first binding. Ink notes to rear endpaper; orange on spine very effaced; tight and sound; a good to very good copy. A presentation copy, with a printed slip signed by Lewis and mounted to the front pastedown, indicating that he will be abroad on the date of publication and will be unable to inscribe books personally.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Co, United States, 1927.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean text. Gently read. All 1st Printing points of issue present including 'C' for 'G' in Gantry on the spine lettering. Toning to the edges of the text. Light toning to the paste-downs and the end pages. Light wear to the edges of the boards and to the top and base of the spine. Blue boards / spine, gold lettering. Dustcover not price clipped. Light wear to the top and base of the spine, mild rubbing to the front flap crease, toning to the rear panel and flaps. New mylar cover. Rare.
Seller: The Casemaker, Troup, TX, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$999.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth stamped in orange. Stated fourth printing. Sarcastically inscribed by Lewis to Leonard Lyons, famous columnist and father of film critic Jeffrey Lyons, to ffep. Front hinge is starting, mesh showing, front cover loose. Spine slant and inward bowing to board edges. Rubbing to extremities. Jacket in mylar with $2.50 price has large chips at spine ends/corners and even soil, tape at flaps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$1062.50 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1st state with Gantry reading as Cantry on the spine of the book. Lewis' novel of an evangelical huckster was the source for the award-winning movie of the same name starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons. Light tap to rear upper corner, minute scattered foxing to top edge, thus very nearly fine in blue-and-orange buckram boards; the original dw has a moderate chip atop the spine that does not affect the title and three small chips on the lightly soiled rear panel, thus a strong very good+ example of the rare dw with no fading to the teal-colored spine! Original $2.50 price intact on the front flap.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt, 1927. First edition, first state with C on spine. Very good bright copy with no former owner marks. Good jacket, light aqua with black and red ($2.50). Closed tears at top corner and Very light sunning to front edge of endpapers. Small rear bottom corner stain to back panel of jacket, rear endpaper and (faintly) last page; bottom edge stain, uneven soil and closed tears to rear panel of jacket. Closed tear to front edge of flap. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue with "Gantry" spelled "Cantry" on the spine. Top edge soiled, and a gift inscription which has been partially erased on the front fly, very good or better in an about very good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine ends. A notable novel about a corrupt evangelist, memorably filmed in 1960 with Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones, who both won Oscars, as did the screenplay of director Richard Brooks.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, first issue with the "C" that looks like a "G" on the spine. This BRIGHT and attractive dustjacket has minor wear to the spine. There are NO chips or pieces missing. The book is tight, and the boards are clean. The pages are clean with light wear to the edges. A lovely copy of this true first edition and first issue dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc., [1927]. First edition, first issue binding (with "Cantry" spelled incorrectly on spine). With an inscription card tipped in on dedication page reading "-To Louis/Emerson, with/the greetings of/Sinclair Lewis." Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp. Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut. Spine lightly rubbed. Some minor shelf wear to spine extremities and corners. Previous owner's tiny book plate tipped in on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. "Elmer Gantry (1927) attacked hypocrisy in the church. Gantry begins his career as a relatively sincere divinity student who is troubled by his strong sexual nature, but he becomes a hypocritical minister and, later, a jackleg traveling evangelist. Some ministers of the day approved of the book as an attack on genuine abuses within their profession, and literary gadfly H. L. Mencken praised its satire of corrupt fundamentalism. Many critics, however, viewed the book as obscene and its satire as overdone." (American Dictionary of National Biography). Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, just three years after the publication on Elmer Gantry. Pastore. HBS 67976 $1,250.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1927.
Price: US$1337.28 + shipping
Description: ELMER GANTRY, Harcourt Brace, 1927, first edition (first issue binding with "C" for "G" on spine panel), a bright fine copy in a vg dust-wrapper with light chipping to the base of the dust-wrapper spine which wraps around a bit to the lower left corner of the front dust-wrapper panel and with some dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Successfully filmed in 1960.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927; first issue of First Edition in dust jacket; flat-signed by Sinclair Lewis on title page; printed title box on spine as shown in Pastore 13. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of blue cloth boards, minor sunning to backstrip, orange printed titling on front board remains bold, printed title on spine has rubbed appearance, as is common in this issue; text is very good throughout. Moderate amount of wear to edges of jacket over spine, a few small closed tears "repaired" with scotch tape to verso; light dust soiling/smudging to rear jacket panel; light rubbing to jacket as well; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt, 1927. First edition, first state with C on spine. Very good jacket, dark aqua with black and red ($2.50). Small chip at head and bottom corner. Presentation on blank (3x5) card: "To John W(M?) Hughes for his Gantry with the greetings of Sinclair Lewis Monterey, Cal. Feb. 15, 1930" Card is lightly tipped in at front endpaper with shadow of old fashioned scrapbooks 'corners'. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, FirstPrinting with the "C" that looks like a "G" on the spine. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's $2.50 printed price present on the front flap. 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 clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: A later printing, ex-library copy with the bookplate of The Phillips Exeter Academy library on the front pastedown, stamped DISCARDED, of a book made into a film starring Burt Lancaster that won three Academy Awards. An undistinguished copy BUT for the fact that it belonged to James Agee with his SIGNATURE "J R Agee" dated March 1927 on the front free endpaper. This copy later belonged to Henry Darcy Curwen, of the Exeter English faculty, who signed his name below Agee's. In March 1927, Agee, at age 17, was in his "upper-middle" year (junior) at Exeter, an admirer of Sinclair Lewis and already committed to a literary career, submitting poems and stories to the Phillips Exeter Monthly. In one of his early letters to Father Flye (LETTERS OF JAMES AGEE TO FATHER FLYE, pages 27-28) dated Exeter 17 March 1927, Agee writes: "I've bought and read Elmer Gantry, the Lewis satire on religion. It's very disappointing, although excellent in spots. He's turning rancid." Reflecting his own psychological unease at the time, Agee soon expands this somewhat in one of his earliest published critical articles, a review of ELMER GANTRY in the Phillips Exeter Monthly 31 (May 1927): "It is one gigantic crescendo of walloping filthiness, and I have the feeling that it carried Mr. Lewis before it, and left him stranded where not even himself can work his salvation." Early signed Agee material is uncommon, and the important resonance of this copy with his beginning literary efforts can hardly be exaggerated. Good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. An Agee rarity
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc., [1927]. First edition, second issue binding (with "Gantry" spelled correctly on spine). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp. Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut. In publisher's dust jacket. Jacket with some very minor rubbing to spine. Jacket with price intact, but corners clipped. Small bookseller label on rear paste down. Overall a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. "Elmer Gantry (1927) attacked hypocrisy in the church. Gantry begins his career as a relatively sincere divinity student who is troubled by his strong sexual nature, but he becomes a hypocritical minister and, later, a jackleg traveling evangelist. Some ministers of the day approved of the book as an attack on genuine abuses within their profession, and literary gadfly H. L. Mencken praised its satire of corrupt fundamentalism. Many critics, however, viewed the book as obscene and its satire as overdone." (American Dictionary of National Biography). Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, just three years after the publication on Elmer Gantry. Pastore. HBS 67991. $2,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. ELMER GANTRY SIGNED. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$2549.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. 3 inch tear down top FEP corner. Few small chips along panel edges. Shelf wear on rear panel. First issue with points of issue present including 'C' for 'G' in Gantry on the spine lettering. First issue dust jacket with the 2.50 price on the flap. ; Signed by Sinclair Lewis on FEP. ; Signed by Author.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1927.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 432 pages. First edition, first state with "Gantry" spelled "Cantry" on the spine of the book. Advance review copy with two slips attached to the first sheet. The story of a con man and a female evangelist pedaling religion to small town America. in 1960 it was made into an Academy Award nominated movie starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with three very small(1/4") chips to the top of the spine and back cover. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first binding. A fine copy in a dust jacket with some tiny chips and tears and very light soiling. A film adaptation wasn't made for 33 years, until the 1960 production of the same title, which starred Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons. This delay allowed a more realistic version than might have been possible nearer publication. It might be interesting to see it made yet again, set in the present when the Gantrys have moved indoors to mega-churches and fly around in jets to praise the Lord and pass the hat. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first binding. A fine copy in a dust jacket with some small chips and tears and very minor soiling and wear. 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. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1927.
Price: US$3999.99 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition, First Printing (No statement on copyright indicates first printing). Not price-clipped ($2.50 price intact). Published by Harcourt Brace & Company, 1927. Octavo. First state dark blue binding stamped in orange with "C" on spine instead of "G" in "Gantry". Book is like new; clean and crisp with no writing or names. Spine straight and corners sharp. Binding tight and pages crisp. Has scarce original dust jacket; like new with a few small tears along top edge. Unfaded and clean. A truly wonderful copy of this classic Sinclair Lewis novel adapted into the acclaimed 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster. 432 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. ELMER GANTRY. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this scathing satire of fundamentalist Christianity in US America, with printed presentation slip signed by Lewis tipped onto the front endpaper. ELMER GANTRY was widely praised by critics and lambasted by members of the clergy. "Charlotte ministers were advised to refrain from their attack on art and sex magazines and concentrate upon getting ELMER GANTRY. off the press and newsstands" noted the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER; "The story is all fiction, with no reality in corresponding to actual life. Still newspapers are discussing it. it is one of the literary obsessions of Mr. Lewis that clergymen must continually be interested in girls' feet and ankles" observed the Sioux Falls ARGUS-LEADER (ironically in its "Weekly Meditation" column). A classic example of literary wasp nest-kicking. 7.5'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth binding with orange lettering to front board and spine. First issue with "Cantry" to spine (Bruccoli & Clark). Original unclipped ($2.50) green, red, and black dust jacket. Fore-edge machine deckle. 432 pages. Small printed card signed by Lewis tipped onto front flyleaf with a postage stamp, expressing regrets that he was unable to inscribe the book. Publisher's advance review copy slip laid in. Dust jacket with careful restoration to edges and spine, a bit of soiling to rear panel. Binding corners and spine ends lightly bumped, a bit of shelfwear. Clean and bright: shows well. Very good plus in restored dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
LEWIS Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. , 1927.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: "LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1927). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase. $4000.First edition, very scarce first issue of the controversial bestseller by Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis, whose works "changed the shape of American culture" (New York Times), in original dust jacket.Praised by H.L. Mencken, Lewis' controversial novel of religious hypocrisy "was an instant bestseller sales were further stimulated when Boston banned it and the evangelist Billy Sunday dubbed Lewis 'Satan's Cohort A satire of American religious life, Elmer Gantry may be seen as a cautionary tale for 'born again' America" (Parker, 121-22). In characters such as George Babbitt and Elmer Gantry, as well as Lewis' attack on fascism in It Can't Happen Here (1930), he "changed the shape of American culture" (New York Times). In 1930 Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Adapted to film in 1960 by director Richard Brooks, the film was nominated for five Oscars. First issue, with "Cantry" on book spine, uncorrected. Pastore 13, 31. Just a touch of soiling to rear panel of dust jacket. An about-fine copy, scarce and desirable in such exemplary condition."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair.. Elmer Gantry.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1927.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Description: 432 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom green 1/4 morocco folding box and chemise. First edition; first binding. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Absolutely spectacular.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in about very good condition in a jacket which is dirt stained on the rear cover. This copy belonged to local Rabbi Henry Joseph Berkowitz with his signature on the front paper. Lewis has inscribed the book " from a fellow rabbi Sinclair Lewis, Portland Jan. 10 1942".
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.