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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). Hardcover. A later printing, ex-library copy with the bookplate of The Phillips Exeter Academy library on the front pastedown, stamped DISCARDED, of a book made into a film starring Burt Lancaster that won three Academy Awards. An undistinguished copy BUT for the fact.....
1946. Documents. Collection of SIGNED contracts along with a copy of the original script for the 6 October 1946 radio performance presented by The Theatre Guild on the Air. Included are a 15 July 1946 two-page contract SIGNED by Sinclair Lewis, Theatre Guild co-administrator Armina Marshall, and Polly Damrosch Howard.....
1930 -1933. Letters. Fine group of letters from Lewis SIGNED in full to critic Selden Rodman. Two of the letters are brief social exchanges. Another is a two-page typed letter dated 22 October 1930 from Vermont. In part: "I'm delighted by the HARKNESS HOOT [Yale University campus magazine co-founded by.....
26 September n.y. Letter. A two-page handwritten letter on rectos of two 8-1/2" x 11" sheets SIGNED in full to Dr. Smyth. In part: "God bless you a million times, not only for the May Sinclair review & the way in which it was played up, but for your immensely.....
St. Augustine: 23 March n.y. Letter. One-page handwritten letter on a 6" x 10-1/4" sheet SIGNED in full to Mr Holt. In full: "I am grateful for your invitation, & I should be very happy to go to Rollins, which I have been watching from a far. But I have.....
Letter. A brief handwritten SIGNED note on 5-3/4" x 6-3/4" Manger Hotels - New York City stationery. In full: "To W. Leslie Barnette with the greetings of Sinclair Lewis. New York June 8, 1925."
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. "A Novel of the Young Girl on the Stage." Dustwrapper art by John Falls. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the dedicatee on the dedication page: "To Gordon Harris/But for whom this/dedication may never/have occurred./Cornelius H. Traeger/N.Y.C. July 12, 1940." Also.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Second state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and.....
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. First state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and Best Screenplay.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Green paper boards with paper label and black cloth spine and corners. Copy #185 of 975 numbered copies of the first printing of the complete text of the article Lewis wrote on Dos Passos's MANHATTAN TRANSFER, originally printed in abridgement in.....
Chicago: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Grant Wood. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/2" x 10") bound in flexible gray linen with the spine lettered in blue on a yellow field and the front cover lettered in blue on a tan field. Designed by William Kittredge; printed and bound at the Lakeside Press.....
Chicago: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Grant Wood. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/2" x 10") bound in flexible gray linen with the spine lettered in blue on a yellow field and the front cover lettered in blue on a tan field. Designed by William Kittredge; printed and bound at the Lakeside Press.....
Framed Drawing. A 3-1/2" x 4-7/8" ORIGINAL DRAWING of Lewis by E. Maurice Bloch on a 6" x 8-1/2" sheet of paper, matted and framed to an overall size of 12-3/4" x 16-1/2" SIGNED as "B" in the drawing by Bloch and INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Lewis below the image.....
Photograph. An 8" x 10" black-and-white formal portrait of a pensive Lewis, head on his fist and looking down. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the light background on the left side: "To Guy/Palmerton/Sinclair Lewis." The photo is also signed in the image by the photographer, Talbot of New.....
Framed Photograph. A 6" x 7-7/8" black-and-white silver print formal portrait by Yvonne, matted and framed to an overall size of 10" x 15," of Lewis on the day he left for his honeymoon with Dorothy Thompson, SIGNED by the photographer in red pencil beneath the image. Also INSCRIBED and.....
Photograph. A 6" x 7-7/8" black-and-white silver print portrait by Madame Yevonde, laid down on an 8" x 10" piece of stiff paper, of Lewis on his wedding day to Dorothy Thompson, SIGNED by the photographer in red pencil beneath the image. Also SIGNED by Lewis on the mat and.....
Bronxville, NY: 2 March 1937. Letter. One page on 5-3/4" x 6-1/2" personal stationery SIGNED in full to Dramatists Play Service ordering "plays mentioned on the enclosed list [not present], as advertised in your latest announcement."
Original Art. A 9-1/4" x 7" piece of mock-up art used for a newspaper illustration with a photo of Lewis with the caption "HE WHO GOT SLAPPED" and a photo of Dreiser with the caption "PUNCH IS MIGHTIER THAN PEN," along with drawings of men preparing to fight. On the.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. With the collaboration of Elsa Weihl. This best-selling biography of the German poet, Heinrich Heine, is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Browne to his good friend Sinclair Lewis: “For my favourite evangelist,/Sinclair Lewis,/with rabbinical benedictions from/Lewis Browne.” Browne was an ordained Rabbi.....
n.d. Richard Thomas Hood. Print. An 8" x 11" ORIGINAL ETCHING (image size of 5-3/4" x 7-1/2") of Lewis by Richard Thomas Hood SIGNED by Lewis. From the Artists Series created by Richard Thomas Hood (1910-1993), Philadelphia artist and Director of the Pennsylvania Art Project (WPA).
