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It Can't Happen Here

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It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

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  • Hardcover
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Collectible - Good/Good
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Doubleday, Doran, January 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible - Good/Good. First edition stated. A Very Good copy in a Good only, tattered jacket. Black cloth with embossed medallion on the cover and gilt spine title. Light shelfwear, no rubbing to corners or spine ends. Offsetting to both pastedowns, p.o. inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. The jacket is price-clipped. There is rubbint with paper loss at the corners and the bottom of the spine. There are two 1/2' tears with loss of paper, one at the top of the front panel and at the top of the spine affecting the title. Photos sent on request.

Synopsis

It is the presidential election of 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency, and his popularity gives way as his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state as he strives to cleanse America of welfare cheats, promiscuity, crime and liberal media. "He was an actor of genius. There was no more overwhelming actor on the stage, in the motion pictures, nor even in the pulpit. He would whirl arms, bang tables, glare from mad eyes, vomit Biblical wrath from a gaping mouth; but he would also coo like a nursing mother, beseech like an aching lover, and in between tricks would coldly and almost contemptuously jab his crowds with figures and facts — figures and facts that were inescapable even when, as often happened, they were entirely incorrect."

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Bookseller
Dunaway Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
184525
Title
It Can't Happen Here
Author
Sinclair Lewis
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Collectible - Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran
Date Published
January 1935
Pages
458

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Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Shelfwear
Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
First Edition
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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....
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...

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