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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here A Novel [PRESENTATION COPY]. Doubleday Doran, 1935.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Doubleday Doran, 1935. Stated first edition. Good+ tight copy in original cloth, spine very lightly sunned and silver lettering lightly rubbed. In scarce unclipped dust jacket, now in mylar, with closed tears and minor chipping to head heel and corners. Invitation card tipped in: "Sinclair Lewis invited Mr. Bennett Schneider (ink in Lewis' hand) to see his play 'Angela is Twenty Two' (signed in ink) Sinclair Lewis". Bennett Schneider's bookstore (1979-2004) was an institution in Kansas City. A bookseller known widely, he was visited by literary luminaries including Hemingway and Lewis, with whom he had ongoing exchanges. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 458 pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth in dust jacket. First edition. The dust jacket has been supplied to this copy. Some tanning to the inscribed page; spine a little sunned; tight and sound in a rubbed jacket with some chipping at extremities, occasionally touching lettering. Alison Lurie's copy, signed and inscribed by Sinclair Lewis on the front free endpaper: "To Alison with love Sinclair Lewis."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, New York, 1935.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper. [vi], 458 pp. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front hinge cracked but holding, else Near Fine in an attractive example of the rare silver dust jacket, Very Good+ and unclipped ($2.50) with rubbing, small chip along top of front panel, a little foxing to flaps. A major work by the Nobel laureate author, a novel written during the rise of fascism in Europe that imagined a similar fascist takeover in America. America's dictator, Buzz Windrip, was inspired not only by Louisiana populist Huey Long but also by the less-known William Dudley Pelley, an American writer of sentimental fiction turned New Age fascist. One of the scarcest major works of Lewis signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday Doran, 1935.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition inscribed and signed by Lewis. About very good, but there is a paint drip stain on the rear cloth which needs care. Inscribed to E.W. Scripps the founder of the Scripps Co. which became UPI and also the founder of Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Signed, Washington, Feb 1, 1936. The jacket lightly rubbed with some wear to the edges.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.