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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt SIGNED INSCRIBED. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York,, 1922.
Price: US$645.88 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Babbitt, first edition, second issue, inscribed to the front end-paper "To Dr. & Mrs Ball, with the affection of Sinclair Lewis", original decorated cloth, pre-publication issue with Harcourt Brace red ink stamp "Sample Copy Publication Date September 14, 1922" to title page, preserved in cloth solander box, paper lettering label, 8vo., New York, 1922.Note second issue distinguished by "Lyte" rather than "Purdy" on p49
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Lewis, Sinclair. BABBITT [With Signature]. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1922.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 401 pages. In Very Good condition, lacking dust jacket. Bound in contemporary full blue cloth, with orange label and blue lettering to spine. Mild shelf wear and soiling, and mild scuffing to boards. Mild wear to crown and tail of spine. Clipped flat signature by Lewis loose within. Pages clean. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. 1345948. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt [First Edition with signed card]. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922; no additional printings indicated, first issue of first edition with "Purdy" for "Lyte" & "my fellow human" errors on pg. 49 (Pastore, 8); 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" card bearing Sinclair Lewis' signature, dated Aug. 1, 1924, laid-in. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of boards, orange titling on spine and front board remains bold; text also very good. Dust jacket is worn with several small closed tears, chipping over head and heel of spine; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. More photos available upon request. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1922.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Inscribed by Babbitt "To Bert Hoch, with the greetings of Sinclair Lewis". No D/J, Spine sunned & frayed along joints. Fair condition. First Edition, First Printing of only 9500 printed copies. First state with "Purdy" on Page 49 line 4 & "my" on line 5. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.
Seller: Sam Barcelo, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1922.
Price: US$8800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of with "Purdy" for "Lyte" on Page 49 line 4 & "my" on line 5. Octavo, original cloth. With a humorous autographed letter signed from Lewis which reads, "Hartford, Connecticut Monday, Nov. 27, 1922, Louis My manly head is bowed up with grief. Either Gracie or I got balled up on dates. If your maid has a regrettable habit of being out Sunday evenings, just have some sandwiches and coffee -- we want only the light of your countenances --well, and maybe a drink. Let thy humble servant know, o master. We'll be staying at the Hotel Chatham, Vanderbilt and 48th. Yes, lez you and I lunch while I'm there. Tell Dick I agree with him. Salaams, SinclairÂLewis." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example. With Babbitt (1922) Sinclair Lewis consolidated the reputation he had earned with his first best-selling novel, Main Street (1920). Like Main Street, Babbitt not only became a best seller, but it generated controversy, became a US cultural phenomenon, and eventually contributed a new word to the language. (Although the word âbabbittâ has come to mean a âsmugly conventional person,â George F. Babbitt is a more complex individual â" and more troubled â" than the dictionary definition would suggest.) Babbitt is the story of a middle-aged real estate broker who faces a series of psychological crises that reveal to him the emptiness of his superficially successful and prosperous life (Fleming).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1922.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "Purdy" on Page 49 line 4 & "my" on line 5. A wonderful copy. This copy is SIGNED by Sinclair Lewis on the front endpaper. This First Issue dustjacket has minor wear to the edges. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.