Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Sinclair Lewis. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue and orange cloth boards. No jacket. Spine faded, general shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Presumed first edition, blue cloth boards with orange stamping. Light soiling on the boards and top edge, corners mildly bumped and rubbed, slight fraying on the spine ends. On both pastedowns is stamped "Gen. Geo. A. White Veterans Club, Inc." and the notation B-8. On the half-title page in grease(?) pencil "Presented to Service Men's Club by Mr. Carl ___, 1400 N. E. Broadway Portland Oregon, Feb.3- 1942." Binding is pliant but completely intact, text clean.
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.44 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, blue/orange lettering to spine & front board, deckled page edges, 275pp, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, light chafing to spine & boards, light discolouration to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name & inscription in ink to ffep)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Lewis, Sinclair:. The Man who Knew Coolidge.. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1928.
Price: US$33.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 275p hardback, black cloth with lettering on orange ground, spine tight and fresh, only very light wear, a clean copy with repeated ink stamp from Chase Diet Sanatorium, also pencil note to endpaper: "Living Room", else a clean and tight copy of the first edition Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo; 275pp. Navy blue cloth stamped in orange. No additional printings noted. Covers fresh but spotted. In unclipped ($2.00) dj with taped repairs on verso, numerous tiny chips, short tears to extremities, and the lower 1/3 of the dj spine missing.however, the title and author lettering unaffected. Dj now protected in a removable mylar cover.
Seller: La Playa Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair.. The Man Who Knew Coolidge.. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in dark blue cloth stamped in orange, lacking the dustwrapper. 275pp. Novel, which followed on the heels of the Nobel Prize winning author's earlier novels of the 1920's--Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry. Q14876
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Harcourt, Brace and Company. (1928). 1st edition. 275pp. Hardcover. Blue boards lightly soiled with spine strip darkened. Page edges soiled. Internally, paper is slightly age toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1928). First Edition. 8vo. 275pp. Blue cloth stamped in orange, bright, near fine, no owner's name. Dj chipped in part, mostly head of spine impacting few title letters, price of $2.00 intact. "Introducing Lowell Schmaltz friend of Babbitt and constructive citizen". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE, H-B, 1928, first edition, a tight vg copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1928.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's blue cloth stamped in orange. First edition. Slight rubbing to board edges, gentle crimping to heel. Sunning to spine. Bit of spotting to rear cover, minor fingerprints to a few spots in prelims. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 275 pp. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in orange (lacking dust jacket). First edition. An attractive copy, but with old ownership stamps on endleaves.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth lettered and ruled in red. A little rubbing to cloth, a bright very good copy. Based on the USA edition published by Harcourt, Brace. This Canadian edition is uncommon.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 275p.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$54.87 + shipping
Description: 275 Seiten, dunkelblau-oranger O.Lwd (Name a. Titel)
Seller: Antiquariat Steinwedel, Betzendorf, Germany
Lewis, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1928.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Man Who Knew Coolidge by Sinclair Lewis. First edition in original blue cloth with orange trim. Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, (1928). Binding is in very good condition, toning to the spine. Contents clean. 275 Pages. 5 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches. Inventory #23-214. Price: $60.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
SINCLAIR LEWIS. THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE. Harcourt, Brace and company, 1928.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: $70.00 OBO. MR. LEWIS HAS DEVOTED ALL OF HIS SATIRICAL GENIUS TO THIS TRIUMPH OF PORTRAITURE.
Seller: Smokey, York, NE, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The dust jacket is a bit chipped and edgeworn, and there is one chip that extends about an inch and a half down the jacket spine, and is roughly one half the spines width. The book itself is a worn at the extremitities. The first American edition, published by Harcourt Brace in 1928.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. First Edition. Printed blue dust jacket with original $2.00 price intact; book in dark blue cloth with orange title square and lettering. Jacket shows shallow chips and tears along edges with bottom 1.5" of spine panel missing, with some darkening to spine and red staining to back. Boards lightly edgeworn with a small scuff to orange title square on front. Spine slightly cocked, with nudging at head and tail. Opens easily to title page and between a few gatherings, but binding is holding soundly. Pages unmarked [Pastore 14].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
The Man Who Knew Cooliidge. Lewis, Sinclair. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Harcourt Brace and Company in 1928. Bound in the blue cloth with orange lettering that Harcourt and Brace utilized on Lewis's novels. A fine example of the book. Dust jacket very good with some short edge tears and postage stamp sized chips to both spine ends. The chip to the base of the spine extends around the base of the rear panel in a larger chip. Lewis's fist novel after Elmer Gantry.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of Lewis's scarcer titles. Near Fine in bright dustjacket that would be Very Good but for half dollar sized chip at top front panel, dime sized chip at lower front panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of Lewis's scarcer titles. Near Fine in dustjacket, lower spine end chipped half inch, smaller chips at top edge, few cm chip at lower front panel, inch chip at rear panel.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt, Brace & Company, NY, 1928.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's full navy cloth with reverse panel on spine and cover in orange with navy lettering, fore-edge deckle. Advance copy notice and publisher's complimentary card laid in. . Spine is sunned, front cover has roaching to the fore-edge and the bottom edge, very light roaching on rear cover, title page is moderately foxed at the seam, other pages have very slight foxing at the edges, else unmarked, tight and square. VERY GOOD. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 275 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 275 pp.Text is clean, tight and unmarked, toned. Blue cloth boards with orange titles is clean and undamaged, DJ is intact, woth som eedgewear. Not price-clipped. Now in protective mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
LEWIS, SINCLAIR.. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Offsetting on the title page and the opposite page listing the author's previous titles, else a near fine copy in a jacket with some chipping. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, [10], 11-275pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in orange. No additional printings on copyright page. Light dust along top edge of text block. Publisher's dust jacket, with $2.00 price on front flap, light toning to white borders, professional restoration to spine edges and corners, bright illustrations. An attractive example. A satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, it is a follow-up to Elmer Gantry. The first section of the novel was originally published in The American Mercury in 1927.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a near very good dustwrapper with some loss at the crown. A flawed but presentable copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, [10], 11-275pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in orange. No additional printings on copyright page. Light wear to cloth spine, solid text block. Publisher's first state dust jacket, with $2.00 price on front flap, archival tissue repair to rear hinge, shallow chips at spine, bright illustrations. An attractive example. A satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, it is a follow-up to Elmer Gantry. The first section of the novel was originally published in The American Mercury in 1927.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1928.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 275 pages. First edition, first printing. His 10th book under his own name. First published in The American Mercury in 1927. Introducing Lowell Schmaltz friend of Babbitt and constructive citizen. Fine book in a very good+ dust jacket with slight wear to the corners and a couple of shallow chips to the top & bottom of the front cover. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
LEWIS, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in an attractive, price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with some shallow chipping at the top of the front panel, and a faint stain on the spine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, FirstPrinting. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears with minor repair. 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.