LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Dodsworth. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. FIRST EDITION. FIRST ISSUE OF THE DUST JACKET. A FINE COPY.
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LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Dodsworth. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929.
8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange; dust jacket (a few tiny chips to corners, spine slightly soiled, otherwise bright).
FIRST EDITION. FIRST ISSUE OF THE DUST JACKET without reviews on the front flap. Lewis' novel juxtaposes European high culture with American commercialism and values during the early 20th-century. In 1929, the year following the publication of Dodsworth, Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Pastore, p.171. A FINE COPY.
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