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Babbitt
by Lewis, Sinclair
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1922 Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. Second state, with textual corrections on page 49. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with orange and reverse orange spine and cover lettering. 401 pages + 5 pages of ads at rear. Binding cracked at half-title page; webbing visible, but pages not loose. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. Covers have a few small stains. One page is dog eared; a few pages have a tiny nick at the fore edge or a very small crease at the bottom corner. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Dust jacket is missing. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Babbitt , by Sinclair Lewis, was first published in 1922. This novel is a satire of American culture. It critiques society and the socially-acceptable behavior of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13694
- Title
- Babbitt
- Author
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Date Published
- 1922
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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