ELMER GANTRY
by Lewis, Sinclair
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1927. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1927]. Original dark blue cloth lettered in orange.
First Edition of Lewis's scathing satire about a fraudulent itinerant preacher (shades of Bakker and Swaggart!) -- since immortalized on the screen by Burt Lancaster. This was the fourth of Lewis's five great novels of the 1920s -- preceded by MAIN STREET, BABBITT and ARROWSMITH, and succeeded by DODSWORTH. When ELMER GANTRY was published, a minister in Virginia invited Lewis to come down and be lynched, and one in New Hampshire tried to have him jailed. [K&H] This copy is in the second binding state, with the spine plainly reading "GANTRY" (in the first state, the "G" resembles a "C"). Just about fine condition (a little faint speckling of the rear cover cloth). [Note: this copy came to us with a facsimile first-issue dust jacket, which we shall pass along if a buyer wishes.].
First Edition of Lewis's scathing satire about a fraudulent itinerant preacher (shades of Bakker and Swaggart!) -- since immortalized on the screen by Burt Lancaster. This was the fourth of Lewis's five great novels of the 1920s -- preceded by MAIN STREET, BABBITT and ARROWSMITH, and succeeded by DODSWORTH. When ELMER GANTRY was published, a minister in Virginia invited Lewis to come down and be lynched, and one in New Hampshire tried to have him jailed. [K&H] This copy is in the second binding state, with the spine plainly reading "GANTRY" (in the first state, the "G" resembles a "C"). Just about fine condition (a little faint speckling of the rear cover cloth). [Note: this copy came to us with a facsimile first-issue dust jacket, which we shall pass along if a buyer wishes.].
Synopsis
Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 and published by Harcourt in March 1927.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14994
- Title
- ELMER GANTRY
- Author
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (Early 20th Century);
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About the Seller
Sumner & Stillman
Biblio member since 2009
Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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