Lewis, Sinclair. Gideon Planish. Random House, New York, 1943.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. 8 1/8" by 5 1/2". Very good book in very good plus dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFEP. In oatmeal cloth covered boards with "SL" monogram gilt-stamped on the front cover, gilt-stamped lettering against red background and gilt graphics on spine. Upper external page edges are tinted but faded. Board spine and extremities are lightly sunned. Fore-edge corners are minimally curled. External page edges are age-toned. Shadow transfers and faint foxing to end papers. Back paste down has small red-pencilled date "May '43". Text pages are age-toned, else internally clean. Text block is sound. Dust jacket spine is sunned. Fore-edge folds are creased and scuffed but not rubbed through except at the fore-edge corners. Small chips along edges at head and tail of jacket spine; front corner at head of spine has a 1/2" closed vertical tear along the fold. Upper right fore-edge corner of front panel is rubbed and with several chips and 1 3/8" closed vertical tear along the fold. Not price clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.

Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.

LEWIS, SINCLAIR. GIDEON PLANISH. NEW YORK NY RANDOM HOUSE PUB 1943., 1943.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Description: NF/VG+. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER "FOR SHIRLEY WITH THE GREETINGS OF/SINCLAIR LEWIS/HOLLYWOOD JULY 17, 1943" D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF WEAR AT THE CORNERS, SPINE-ENDS, AND FORE-EDGE FOLDS, SHALLOW CHIPPING TO THE OF THE SPINE WITH A 3/8" DEEP X 3/4" WIDE TRIANGULAR CHIP AT THE TOP OF THE REAR PANEL NEAR THE SPINE, A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, AND A COUPLE OF SURFACE ABRASIONS ON THE FRONT SPINE EDGE. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.