8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange (small gouge to spine); original dust jacket (restored with small portions recolored, soiling and creasing, small hole in spine panel).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Purdy" and "my fellow" on p.49. 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.