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LEWIS, Sinclair as Tom Graham. Hike and the Aeroplane. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1912.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo. 275pp. Contemporary gift inscription on the front fly, hinges slightly started and moderate rubbing at the spine, a solid, very good copy. When encountered, this cheaply produced children's book is generally found with the lettering and painted pictorial cover pretty well worn. This is a considerably better than usual copy, lacking the rare dustwrapper. The very scarce, pseudonymous first book by the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, printed in an edition of only 1000 copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
[LEWIS, Sinclair] GRAHAM, Tom.. Hike and the Aeroplane.. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1912.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: 275 pp. 8vo, publisher's illustrated cloth; preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Lacking the original printed dust jacket. First edition. A fine, bright copy, and very, very unusual in this condition. Author's first book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Graham, Tom. Hike and the aeroplane. Frederick A. Stokes Co, New York, 1912.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. [12], 275; 4 duotone plates by Arthur Hutchins; small piece of the corner missing on the last page of text, 1912 Xmas inscription in ink on front free endpaper, very light scratch on the front cover illustration, otherwise fine and bright, and unusual thus. Sinclair Lewis's pseudonymous debut novel. In a new quarter morocco clamshell box, green morocco label lettered in gilt on spine.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. Hike and the Aeroplane. By Tom Graham. , 1912.
Price: US$10450.00 + shipping
Description: [LEWIS, Sinclair]. Hike and the Aeroplane. By Tom Graham. Original pictorial cloth, housed in custom black morocco-backed clamshell box. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1912]. First edition of the author's first book. Dedicated to his parents, "To Edwin and Isabel Lewis, The Author's oldest friends." A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20000.00 + shipping
Description: Full Description: [LEWIS, Sinclair]. Hike and the Aeroplane. by Tom Graham. With Illustrations in Two Colors by Arthur Hutchins. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First edition, one of only 1,000 copies printed and one of only two copies surviving in dust jacket. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 128 mm). [xii], 1-275 pp. With color frontispiece and three illustrations inserted. Original light grey cloth, decoratively stamped in orange and dark blue on front board and spine, dust jacket. Jacket is chipped at spine extremities and corners, with one chip at upper front panel and upper rear panel, a tear to lower front panel. Extremities rubbed, with some light soiling. Cloth spine slightly rubbed at extremities, some light foxing to endleaves, p. 149 somewhat soiled, p. 152's upper corner is dog-eared due to publisher's improperly cut corner, slight tear to p. 243. Still, a fine copy of this incredible rarity. Housed in full morocco clamshell case. According to Sinclair Lewis bibliographer Steve Pastore, there are only two copies extant of this book in jacket (he uses this very copy for photography and reference in his bibliography). Pastore, 1. HBS 69041. $20,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.