LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Babbitt. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.
8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange (front joint cracked, spine ends lightly frayed). Provenance: Marcus J. Reynolds (ownership inscription with the notation "first edition"); "Kenny" (recipient of author's inscription written below).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Purdy" and "my fellow" on p.49. INSCRIBED BY LEWIS on the front free endpaper: "To Kenny, the second edition revised & illuminated, Sinclair Lewis."
In middle-aged, middle-class, middle-management title character George Follansbee Babbitt, Lewis identified a new American type. The term "Babbitt" can be found in most dictionaries. Webster's defines it as "a person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards." Pastore 8.
[With:] LEWIS. Main Street. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Original blue cloth stamped in original. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
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