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New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's beige nubby cloth and slate blue boards. Teg. Fine in worn slipcase. 448 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 380 of 500 signed by Lewis: becoming the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. H.L. Mencken called him "a red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." This title discusses the travail faced of an idealistic physician. His literary reputation waned at the end of his career and was renewed in the early twentieth century -- primarily for his dystopian satire, "It Can't Happen Here," an appropriate parallel to the rise of Donald Trump. Crisp copy, small nicks to left side of spine paper label.

New York: Grove Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 234 paqes.

London: Faber And Faber Limited, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green boards front cover printed in black. Very good in slightly nicked matching green dust wrapper, nicked at spine head and foot with slight loss head of back cover. 38 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Owner signature front free front endpaper: Herrbert C. Barrows Jr. 8 March 1934, book label of The Grolier Book Shop, Cambridge.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Two-toned crimson boards and blue/green cloth, paper spine and front cover labels. Very good. 120 pages. 22.5 x 16 cm. Frontispiece, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Bookplate.

London: Faber And Faber Limited, 1951. First UK edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper. 126 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Clean copy, light owner stamp inside front cover pastedown.

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. First printing. Stiff Wraps. Orig. light tan printed stiff wrapper. Near fine. 88 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Entitled "The Word and the Machine," Auden discusses the negative effect of the Machine Age on poetry and the poet.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 254 pages.

New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover decorated in black and slightly lighter maroon. Fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at edges, spine slightly faded. 437 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. This novel conceived in 1944 took nine years to completion. Time and place World War I. Very bright, fresh copy, covers and contents, price clipped dust wrapper.

New York: Dial, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth lettered in red. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper with loss as spine head and foot. 120 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. His reputation has endured since his death and his work has been adapted for the screen to great acclaim. His mother never revealed who his biological father was, but he always considered his stepfather, simply "father" throughout his life.

New York: Knopf, 1991. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 285 pages.

New York: Random House, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in very good dust wrapper top stained red, nicked at bottom front cover and backstrip head and foot. 383 pages. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Bright, very clean copy with seven short stories including, "The Bear." PETERSON A21d. Price clipped dust wrapper.

London: Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. royal blue cloth. backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at head and foot.. 240 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. A volume of essays, the latter often published anonymously were not easily traced here gathered. Leonard Wolff in his editorial note presents further documentation. Owner inscription free front endpaper. Clean, fresh copy.

New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth spine lettered in red and green. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 181 pages. 21 x 14 cm. His second novel in clipped dust wrapper, a bright, very fresh copy. Double illustrated title page lettered in red.

London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. purple cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine in very good price clipped dust wrapper. 91 pages. 22 x14 cm. Slight loss at head, nicked at foot dust wrapper.

Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned brown/tan boards. Fine in fine slipcase. 177 pages. 23.5 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 53 of 250, signed on half title as issued, and additionally inscribed: Presentation copy to actor William Ely -- "The book took me longer than any novel, with good wishes, Larry McMurtry". This was the author's first book of non-fiction, and is the second (correction) printing that was preceded by a first printing that was so littered with typographical errors that it was recalled and destroyed.

New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, front cover lettering in blue and gilt, slight fade to gilt. Fine in fine wrapper. 247 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. $3.00 price on front cover flap, dust wrapper designed by McKnight Kauffer. PETERSON A24b. Overall, a very bright, fresh copy. His first novel published since "The Hamlet" in 1940.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. mustard yellow cloth with printed paper spine label. Very good. 303 pages. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. One of 1500 copies. KIRKPATRICK A66. Faint owner inscription, interior contents bright and clean, slight rubbing to backstrip head and foot.

London: W.H. Allen, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 446 pages. Signed by the author on title page. Price clipped dust wrapper.

New York: Random House, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. striated red cloth, front cover with silver and white initials, backstrip decorated in black with gilt lettering. Teg. Fine in very good brown publisher slipcase with spine lettering. 348 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 768 of 1050 signed by Sinclair Lewis in black ink, printed on Laid paper. The first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. H.L. Mencken called him "a red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." Bright, very fresh copy. Title page printed in red and black.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, printed front cover and spine paper labels fresh and clean. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 231 pages. 19 x 13 cm, with dust wrapper by Rudolph Ruzicka. Printed by the Plimpton Press, and designed by Dwiggins. Backstrip slightly sunned, dust wrapper chipped at backstrip extremities, generally fresh and bright.