Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
originally published:
New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company
1922

We offered this unrestored copy in our Catalog 103.
awards:
- Johnson Highspot of American Literature(1922)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 2/7/1885
died: 1/10/1951
born as: Harry Sinclair Lewis
nationality: USA
American novelist and social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Collecting tips:
Sinclair Lewis is a major and very interesting American author whose collectibility seems to be highly volatile. He was by far one of the most respected and popular authors of the 1920-1950s, but the interest in him seemed to decline after his death, only to revive again beginning in the 1990s. His first book, a novel for boys, written under the pseudonym Tom Graham, Hike and the Aeroplane, (1912), is rare in jacket, and fairly expensive without, but might be only of marginal interest to the literary collector. All of his early mainstream books, The Trail of the Hawk, (1914 - "M-N" on copyright page), Our Mr. Wrenn, (1914 - "M-N" on copyright page), The Job, (1917 - "B-R" on copyright page), The Innocents, (1917 - "F-R" on copyright page), and Free Air, (1919), are very scarce in jacket. The franchise book is probably Main Street, (1920 - first issue jacket without reviews of this title on the front flap), which is very expensive in jacket. Babbitt, (1922), Arrowsmith (1925 - the book, not the band, issued in both a trade and a limited edition), and Elmer Gantry (1927), round out his most sought after books, but he has plenty more as well.Titles
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1914
Our Mr. Wrenn
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1917
The Innocents
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1920
Main Street
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1926
Arrowsmith
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1927
Elmer Gantry
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1933
Ann Vickers
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1945
Cass Timberlane
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1949
The God-Seeker