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[i-viii+452+[453-56] pages. Octavo (8 1/8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's medium blue cloth with gilt on spine with concentric impressed rectangle enclosing a gilt laurel branch on cover in original pictorial jacket. 50,000 copies of the first edition in dust jacket issued. (Pastore: 13) First edition. This is the "hotel novel" as it has become to be called,… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [9], 2-452, [4] pp. Blue cloth with several blind borders and a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Cream endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The colorful dust jacket done… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Spine is uniformly sun-toned. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 452 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects: Hotels Employees ; Fiction.… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Signed by Author. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934; early printing in facsimile dust jacket; inscribed by Sinclair Lewis on front end page ("To Margot & Marvin / [signature] / Duluth / Feb. 19, 1946"). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of blue cloth boards,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. First Edition stated. Blue cloth hardcover is clean, little bumped and sunned at spine ends. Just a touch musty, else interior is clean and secure. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn with tears at spine ends and corners, 3/4 inch piece missing at head of spine, $2.50 price… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1934. 2nd. Good+. Second or later edition. Purple cloth over baords with several umbossed borders to front, a gilded branch on front, and gilded lettering on spine. Spine letters slightly faded, fading to edges of the covers, corners bumped. Deckled long and bottom fore edges. Interior is toned, otherwise clean and… Read more about this item

No jacket. Book is in Good condition, with corners bumped, some edgewear to cover, light tanning to spine. Very light foxing in endpapers. Prior owner name written on front pastedown, dated 1935). Text pages unmarked and secure.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Cloth modestly soiled and a touch faded, else very good in a good only dustwrapper with extremities chipped and tape-repaired internally.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Later printing. Spine ends lightly sunned, near fine in a fair only dustwrapper with front panel detached from spine and front flap, extremities worn and torn.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth. Stated first edition. Spine cloth has faint offset ghosting from the DJ. Hint of foxing to endpages. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is very nice but for some rubbing or perhaps insecting to … Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original bright blue cloth, with gilt laurel leaves on the upper cover in gilt within a blind embossed series of panels, the spine gilt lettered with blind embossed rules; in the original colour pictorially decorated dustjacket. 452 pp. A handsome and… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Very slight sunning to the spine ends, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a single tiny nick.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1934]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. A fine copy (particularly tight and clean, with no foxing whatsoever) in dust jacket with some fading to the spine panel.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine bright dust jacket with a couple tiny closed tears.

New York: Doubleday, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Pages slightly brown. Cover Corners bent. Spine faded. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

E-047: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1934. 452 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. Early printing, but not a stated first. Publisher's cloth in attractive pictorial dustjacket. DJ is edgeworn and rubbed, but still a nicer example than usual, and retains its original $2.50 price.

Doubleday Doran & Company., Inc., 1934. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good ; Good Jacket. 1934 Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc. First Edition, stated. First printing. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Front cover has central gold-stamped branch with berries framed by series of… Read more about this item

WORK OF ART, Doubleday Doran, 1934, first edition., just about fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear, mostly to the dust-wrapper spine extremities.

New York: Doubleday, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good/Poor. Only half of front of dustwrapper on. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.