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Lewis, Sinclair. The Innocents A Story for Lovers. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1917.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Withdrawn from a public library, this copy has been rebound in blue patterned institutional cloth. Clean, solid copy, with minor internal marks. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 217 pages
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Innocents. New York Harper & Brothers, 1917.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition with code "F-R" on copyright page. 216 numbered pages. Rubbing along spine edges and corners. Spine ends starting to fray. Some fading to spine with a small 1/4" white stain. Some rubbing to title front cover. A few small light stains front cover. A few small stains and scratches to back cover. A few smudges to rear flyleaf and endpaper. Else, good condition. A tight copy. (I7)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Innocents: A Story for Lovers. Harper & Brothers, 1917.
Price: US$131.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, scarcer tan paper over boards binding variant (though there is no clear priority between this and the grey cloth). Lacks scarce jacket. Internal split to spine paper, minor loss to spine head and to spine base, board corners bumped, page ridges lightly foxed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1917 Hard Cover. 216 pp. Lewis was the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Appleby's are happy couple. Often referring to the other as ?father? or ?mother?, the couple have remained as affectionate and passionate as newlyweds, and both are energetic despite their old age. Though they feel young and full of life, their adult daughter, with whom they share a difficult relationship with, and the rest of society, hardly agrees. It is suggested that the couple consider retiring and moving to an assisted living facility. Disenfranchised and underestimated, Mrs. and Mr. Appleby resent the assumption that their lives are over, and in attempt to satiate their desires and prove the others wrong, they decide to take a risk. Working toward a long-held dream, the Appleby's risk their life savings to open a roadside café in New England, despite the protests and doubts of their daughter. Excited and optimistic, the two begin their business journey ready for any obstacle in their way, or so they thought.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Innocents. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, NY, 1917.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo, Golden coloured boards with black lettering. There is a stain at the top of the spine and one on the front board. The rear hinge is loose but intact. There is foxing throughout. Frontis is present-a black and white picture of "The Innocents". Gifted (in pencil) front free page. F-R on copyright page. 1A, B1, C
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing. A Very Good copy in an unrecorded variant binding of pale blue cloth, stamped in black, over pale grey paper covered boards (with fruiting branch motif on front cover), lacking a dustwrapper. Edges and points of boards worn. Harper's "F-R" date designation on copyright page. 217pp. with frontispiece illustration. Uncommon. Q06967
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. The Innocents: A Story For Lovers. Harper & Brothers, 1917.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grey cloth with gilt Title. Copyright page shows 1917 with F-R mark, a scarce true first of the Nobel Prize winner's potboiler. The titles on cover and spine are faded, and there is shelf, edgewear and bumping to corners. There are breaks at pages 139 and 187, where the signatures (the bound sheets that make up a book) come together. This does not impact the integrity of the spine, however, which is straight and tight. There are no markings in this volume, no foxing and very little tanning. The pages are clean. The final page has a tear, but remains part of the book. There is a small, 1" blue sticker from a New York bookseller on the rear endpaper. A very good copy.
Seller: Idiots Hill Book Company, Denton, TX, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. The Innocents - A Story for Lovers. Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1917.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Copyright page states Published October, 1917 F-R making it a real first edition. Gray cloth with gilt. Front hinge splitting. Covers moderately bumped and worn. A card pocket on the back of the frotispiece is the only indication that it was discarded from Newaygo Carnegie Library. Scarce book in first edition. Good copy.
Seller: Roadrunner Books, otsego, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Innocents: A Story for Lovers. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1917.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First edition with copyright page showing 1917 with F-R mark, a scarce true first. 8vo. Grey cloth binding, titles in gilt, 217 pp. Corner of free front endpaper clipped. Very good.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Innocents. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1917.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 217 pages. First edition, first printing. "Published October, 1917" & "F-R" on back of title page. The 4th book published under his own name. Very good+ book with very slight tanning to the spine with no dust jacket. A very nice copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. THE INNOCENTS. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1917.
Price: US$934.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Both hinges cracked. CP States Published October 1917, code F-R present.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair.. The Innocents: A Story for Lovers.. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1917.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: 217 pp. 8vo, publisher's gray gilt-lettered cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Tiny tape stains to free endpapers front and rear; else a bright, unworn, near fine copy. There is a 2 x 1/4" scoop out of the top of the front panel of the dust jacket (not affecting any lettering) and some light wear to the top of the backstrip (also not affecting any lettering). There is evidence of the removal of some tape on the verso of the jacket in those two areas and a few neat archival mends. The jacket is otherwise bright and attractive.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light foxing; contents clean; Good 1st Edition; Scarce; Signed and inscribed,"Sinclair Lewis To My Old Friend Herbert Herron Carmel, April, 7,1933." to the front free endpage of this first edition bound in lightly worn gray cloth with faint hint of red discoloration along rear gutter. Modest professional restoration to the dust jacket's spine ends - small chip to lower front corner. Collector's label affixed to rear pastedown. Complete in 217 bright fresh pages. $1.25 along the spine of the jacket (only 4000 printed) From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature!
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. The Innocents: A Story for Lovers.. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1917.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing issued October, 1917, code F-R. Hardcover, bound in tan boards printed in black with dust jacket. The jacket is edge-rubbed with a few nicks and minor tears, the spine tanned, paper reinforced on the verso edges. The title and endpapers very lightly foxed, else unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.