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Lot 74
Sale 1242 - Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection
Nov 9, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
8vo. Original blue and orange cloth; dust jacket (some discreet restoration with minor portions of the spine panel recolored and some work in facsimile, light rubbing).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the binding with the "G" resembling a "C". Lewis's satirical treatment of evangelism in America created a public outcry, prompting evangelist Billy Sunday to call Lewis "Satan's cohort." Pastore 13.
Property from the Dorros Family Collection