Lewis Sinclair Norman Rockwell (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Rockwell, Norman P. (illustrator). 409pp. Blue cloth, orange lettering and decoration. light wrinkles, light wear, corners bent. Binding solid. B&W plate frontispiece by Norman P. Rockwell.

Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1915, reprint, 408 pages, b&w illustrated frontispiece by Norman P. Rockwell, no other illustrations, hardcover, blue cloth with orange titles & decoration, corners lightly rubbed, one small light spot on top page edges, no dust jacket, several rubber stamped names on front endpaper and free fly leaf and one stamp on rear endpaper, front free endpaper & half-title page are glued together about 1" along hinge, front hinge cracked but neatly reinforced and holding very well, contents clean & tight, book very good (VG) 3068 [SSss28IN].

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Norman Rockwell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published Sept. 1915. Blue cloth, gold lettering front piece. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. Rare Lewis book. Bumped corner, worn cover but clean and square. Good to Very good. Fiction, 20th century US.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Norman Rockwell Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. LIMITED TO 1500 COPIES, this is both Lewis' and Rockwell rarest book. Original blue gilt cloth. Minor light stain to edge of front endpaper, else a better than very good, unmarked, tight and clean copy in bright cover gilt. Comes in a custom-made thick archival Mylar jacket.

Norman Rockwell (frontispiece) (illustrator). First Edition, H-P on copyright page. Very good+ with a little edgewear on cover. A touch of darkening on spine. A few scratches on the top edge of the text block. Previous owner's stamp on front pastedown endpaper. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First edition. Harper and Brothers, "Published September, 1915 KP". Signed 1st printing of first edition of Lewis' scarce third book, illustrated by Norman Rockwell. Spine dulled but legible, else a very good copy, hinges tight and front board bright. No dust jacket. Frontispiece by Norman Rockwell, one of his first book illustrations. Ink PRESENTATION from the AUTHOR on the front endpaper reads: "To Robert Lang from the heroic driver of this caravan - Sinclair Lewis". Tipped in adjacent is a newspaper photo of Lewis and his new bride, Dorothy Thompson with the caption "HONEYMOON ON WHEELS SINCLAIR LEWIS who introduced Mr. Babbit to the World, Embarking, With His Bride, at Oxford for a Caravan Trip Through England (Times World Wide Photos)". Lang was Lewis's close friend and physician. In archival acetate jacket. A contemporary blog elaborates: "So attached to his portable typewriter was American novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis that in 1928 he took it with him on his honeymoon. And his new wife, the journalist Dorothy Thompson, seemed amused. He even found time to use it on the steps of the specially-built 17-foot long caravan in which Lewis and Thompson spent three summer months touring England and Scotland from May-August 1928. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Author.