BABBITT; By Sinclair Lewis
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1922. First Edition, First Issue. Decorative cloth. 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4" x 1 1/2"), dark blue cloth with black lettering on orange rectilinear "labels" on spine and front cover, [6] + 401 pages + [6] ADS. Very Good / None. Item #8743
Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Lewis is best known for his novels Main Street (1920), BABBITT (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
Babbitt explores the moral challenges faced by a typical hard-working American businessman from a Midwestern town who had Conservative middle-class values. The name "Babbitt" became synonymous with narrow-minded bigotry. More successful than Main Street, Babbitt "established Lewis as a major American author"--Pastore, p.105.
ATTRACTIVE solid copy internally and externally. Uncommon in this tight, bright, clean condition. Some fraying to the top of the spine. Light age-toning to pages as is typical. Bookseller's tag on rear pastedown. First issue with "Purdy" for "Lyte" & "my fellow human" errors near top of page 49. Pastore, 8. Johnson High Spot, pp.50-51.
Price: $55.00