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Random House, 1947. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Pages & inside cover lightly toned, minor cover edge wear. "Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters". His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as their strong characterizations of modern working women. Born as Harry Sinclair Lewis in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and, at home, a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis' mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis--tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne, and somewhat popeyed--had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls. At the age of 13, he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In fall 1902, Lewis left home for a year at Oberlin Academy (the then-preparatory department of Oberlin College) to help himself qualify for acceptance by Yale University. While at Oberlin, he developed a religious enthusiasm that waxed and waned for much of his remaining teenage years. He entered Yale in 1903 but did not receive his bachelor's degree until 1908, having taken time off to work at Helicon Hall, Upton Sinclair's cooperative-living colony near Englewood, New Jersey, and to travel to Panama. Lewis's unprepossessing looks, "fresh" country manners, and seemingly self-important loquacity did not make it any easier for him to win and keep friends at Oberlin or Yale than in Sauk Centre. Some of his crueler Yale classmates joked "that he was the only man in New Haven who could fart out of his face". Nevertheless, he did manage to initiate a few relatively long-lived friendships among students and professors, some of whom recognized his promise as a writer. Lewis's earliest published creative work -- romantic poetry and short sketches -- appeared in the Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine, of which he became an editor. After his graduation from Yale, Lewis moved from job to job and from place to place in an effort to make ends meet, write fiction for publication, and chase away boredom. While working for newspapers and publishing houses (and for a time at the Carmel-by-the-Sea, California writers' colony), he developed a facility for turning out shallow, popular stories that were purchased by a variety of magazines. At this time, he also earned money by selling plots to Jack London. Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift-style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. His first serious novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, appeared in 1914, followed by The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (1915) and The Job (1917). That same year also saw the publication of another potboiler, The Innocents: A Story for Lovers, an expanded version of a serial story that had originally appeared in Woman's Home Companion. Free Air, another refurbished serial story, was published in 1919. As early as 1916, Lewis began taking notes for a realistic novel about small-town life. Work on that novel continued through the summer of 1920, when he finally completed Main Street (published in October of that year). As biographer Mark Schorer has stated, the phenomenal success of Main Street "was the most sensational event in twentieth-century American publishing history." Based on sales of his prior books, Lewis's most optimistic projection was a sale of 25,000 copies. In the first six months of 1921 alone, Main Street sold 180,000 copies, and within a few years sales were estimated at two million. He followed up this first great success with Babbitt (1922), a novel that satirized the American commercial culture and boosterism. The story was set in the fictional Zenith, Winnemac, a setting Lewis would return to in future novels. Lewis' success in the 1920s continued with Arrowsmith (1925), a novel about an idealistic doctor which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused). The controversial Elmer Gantry (1927), which exposed the hypocrisy of hysterical evangelicalism, was denounced by religious leaders and was banned in some U.S. cities. Lewis closed out the decade with Dodsworth (1929), a novel about the most affluent and successful members of American society leading essentially pointless lives in spite of their great wealth and advantages. Lewis also spent much of the late 1920s and 1930s writing short stories for various magazines and publications. One of his short stories published in 1936 for Cosmopolitan magazine was a tale about a bear cub who wanted to escape the circus in search of a better life in the real world. The story was originally called "Little Bear Bongo", and was later acquired by Walt Disney Pictures in 1940 for a possible feature film. World War II sidetracked those plans until 1947, when the story (now entitled "Bongo") was placed on a shorter length as a part of the Disney Feature Fun and Fancy Free. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature in his first year of nomination. In the Swedish Academy's presentation speech, special attention was paid to Babbitt. While using his Nobel Lecture as a platform to praise some of his contemporaries–-including, among others, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, and Ernest Hemingway–-he also lamented that "in America most of us - not readers alone, but even writers - are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues," and that America is "the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." After winning the Nobel Prize, Lewis would publish nine more novels in his lifetime, the best remembered being It Can't Happen Here, a novel about the election of a fascist U.S. President. Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism and is buried in the cemetery in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide, was published posthumously." - Wikipedia. Bookseller reference : 068192 |
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<b> February 19, 1806. Read, and ordered to lie on the table</b> City of Washington, A. & G. Way, Printers, 1806.First edition, House issue, 171 pp, Octavo (approximately 9 x 6 inches), rebound in modern brown cloth, upper edges trimmed (as issued?) others uncut and untrimmed, Title page, large folding map, 2pp charts [meterological observations] in facsimile from the Huntington Library copy (from the collection of Henry Wagner). Very slight occasional foxing, else fine. Illustrated with numerous charts, 2 foldout charts, diagrams and one large foldout map. Howes suggest this is earlier than the Senate issue. ¶ The first work to provide a real accounting of the southwestern portion of the Louisiana Purchase, and the first official publication with detailed information of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The first section contains material which Meriweather Lewis communicated to Thomas Jefferson, and discussed their route, trade, the Indians encountered, the flora and fauna, and, of course, the geography of the land. The map, by Nicholas King, who is also supposed to have prepared this material for publication, was of the lower trans-Mississippi, drawn from Dunbar's survey, and is found in only a few copies (here in facsimile). The Sibley-Dunbar descriptions of the Texas-Louisiana frontier gave the first formal and satisfactory picture of the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. Streeter notes that "Two letters by Dr. Sibley..one on the Indian tribes of Texas and the other an account of the Red River and the adjacent country (see preceding lot), seem to be the first accounts of Texas in book form." The official leader of the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis has been called "undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder this country has ever known." Meriwether Lewis was born August 18, 1774, near Charlottesville, Virginia, and was a boyhood neighbor of Thomas Jefferson. In 1794, Lewis joined the militia and, at the rank of Ensign, was attached to a sublegion of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne commanded by Lieutenant William Clark. As he made arrangements for the Expedition, Lewis concluded it would be desirable to have a co-commander. With Jefferson's consent, he offered the assignment to his friend and former commanding officer, William Clark also a native Virginian, born August 1, 1770, and thus 4 years older than Lewis. Their relationship ranks high in the realm of notable human associations. It was a rare example of two men of noble heart and conscience sharing responsibilities for the conduct of a dangerous enterprise without ever losing each other's respect or loyalty. Despite frequent stress, hardships, and other conditions that could easily have bred jealousy, mistrust or contempt, they proved to be self-effacing brothers in command and leadership. During their long journey, there is not a single trace of a serious quarrel or dispute between them. After the Expedition, Lewis was appointed Governor of the Louisiana Territory; Clark was promoted to Brigadier General and appointed to the Superintendency of Indian Affairs. Lewis, at age 35, died tragically and mysteriously on October 11, 1809, just three years after the Expedition. Clark lived a long and productive life in St. Louis, dying September 1 1838, at age 68. In deserved tribute, both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are recognized members of that generation of our young nation's heroes who launched within themselves a drive of nationalistic vision and patriotic will that would form the spirit and richness of American history itself. The bountiful store of intelligence Lewis and Clark accumulated held far-reaching implications for the future of the new nation, both scientifically and politically. Many of its details, however, such as the natural history discoveries, didn't fully come to light until a century later, when the original journals were edited and published by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The completion of an accurate map of their route based on coordinates derived from the explorers' celestial observations, which was another of Jefferson's primary objectives, was not realized during his lifetime. However, the expedition did have one major outcome that was made available to the public well before the expedition was over. That was the "Estimate of the Eastern Indians," which Lewis and Clark compiled during the winter of 1804-05 and sent back on the keelboat that left Fort Mandan for St. Louis on April 7. Retitled "A Statistical View of the Indian Nations Inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana and the Countries Adjacent to its Northern and Western Boundaries," it officially became a public document on February 19, 1806, when Jefferson made it part of his annual Report to Congress, seven months before the Corps got back. At the request of Congress, a thousand copies were printed the following month -(Howes, LewisClark.net). [Wagner 5:1. Sabin 40826. Howes L 319]. Bookseller reference : 25239 |
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The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Goose Lane Editions / Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0864923341) Trade Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine as new condition. "..For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia’s best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with her delightful work. Between 1938, when she married Everett Lewis, until her death in 1970, Maud Lewis lived in a tiny one-room house near Digby, Nova Scotia. Over the years, she painted the doors inside and out, the windowpanes, the walls and cupboards, the wallpaper, the little staircase to the sleeping loft, the woodstove, the breadbox, the dustpan, almost everything her hand touched. Her house was a joy to behold, and it became a magnet for tourists as well as a focal point in her village. In 1979, after Everett Lewis died, the Maud Lewis Painted House Society worked diligently to raise funds to acquire, preserve, and display the house as part of the cultural heritage of the area as well as a memorial to their beloved artist. In 1984, the house and its contents were purchased by the Province of Nova Scotia for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In The Painted House of Maud Lewis, Laurie Hamilton, the conservator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, shows how all the different parts of the house - the building itself, the painted household items, even the wallpaper - were catalogued, conserved, and prepared for exhibition. The preliminary stages of conservation treatment began in 1996 in a most unusual location: the Sunnyside Mall in Bedford, just outside Halifax. where conservators worked in full view of the public. The conservators used established techniques and invented new ones to complete their unique project and documented every stage of the restoration photographically. The book also features more than sixty-five colour photos including several taken by noted photographer Bob Brooks in 1965 for the Star Weekly. Today, anyone can visit the tiny house that has become a folk art phenomenon. The restoration story spans two decades, but the story of the Painted House continues as each new visitor to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia finds delight and inspiration in Maud Lewis’s joyous vision. ". Fine. Bookseller reference : 003650 ISBN : 0864923341 |
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New York, Doubleday; Random House. 2005, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0767920864) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 340 pp. illus. index; 25 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition: November 2005." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "They were the unlikeliest of pairs - a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, NJ. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something clicked - something miraculous - and audiences saw it at once. Before long, they were as big as Elvis or the Beatles would be after them, creating hysteria wherever they went and grabbing an unprecedented hold over every entertainment outlet of the era: radio, television, movies, stage shows, and nightclubs. Martin and Lewis were a national craze, an American institution. The millions (and the women) flowed in, seemingly without end - and then, on July 24, 1956, ten years from the day when the two men joined forces, it all ended. After that traumatic day, the two wouldn't speak again for twenty years. And while both went on to forge triumphant individual careers - Martin as a movie and television star, recording artist, and nightclub luminary (and charter member of the Rat Pack); Lewis as the groundbreaking writer, producer, director, and star of a series of hugely successful movie comedies - their parting left a hole in the national psyche, as well as in each man's heart. In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of a fifty-year friendship, from the springtime, 1945 afternoon when the two vibrant young performers destined to conquer the world together met on Broadway and Fifty-fourth Street, to their tragic final encounter in the 1990s, when Lewis and his wife ran into Dean Martin, a broken and haunted old man. In Dean & Me, Jerry Lewis makes a convincing case for Dean Martin as one of the great - and most underrated - comic talents of our era. But what comes across most powerfully in this definitive memoir is the depth of love Lewis felt, and still feels, for his partner, and which his partner felt for him: truly a love to last for all time. / JERRY LEWIS and Dean Martin sandwiched sixteen money-making films in between nightclub engagements, recording sessions, radio shows, and television bookings during their ten-year partnership. Over the following years Lewis remained in the spotlight as the groundbreaking creator and star of a series of hugely successful movie comedies, and scored triumphs in stage appearances in Europe, where he has been hailed as one of the greatest director-comedians of the twentieth century. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has received numerous other honors for his tireless efforts in the fight against the fourty neuromuscular diseases. JAMES KAPLAN has written novels, essays, and reviews, as well as over a hundred major profiles for many magazines, including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and New York. In 2002 Kaplan coauthored the autobiography of John McEnroe, You Cannot Be Serious, which was an international bestseller (and #1 on the New York Times list). He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. Bookseller reference : 022811 ISBN : 0767920864 |
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Fine as new condition. "....For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova ScotiaÃÂs best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with her delightful work. Between 1938, when she married Everett Lewis, until her death in 1970, Maud Lewis lived in a tiny one-room house near Digby, Nova Scotia. Over the years, she painted the doors inside and out, the windowpanes, the walls and cupboards, the wallpaper, the little staircase to the sleeping loft, the woodstove, the breadbox, the dustpan, almost everything her hand touched. Her house was a joy to behold, and it became a magnet for tourists as well as a focal point in her village. In 1979, after Everett Lewis died, the Maud Lewis Painted House Society worked diligently to raise funds to acquire, preserve, and display the house as part of the cultural heritage of the area as well as a memorial to their beloved artist. In 1984, the house and its contents were purchased by the Province of Nova Scotia for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In The Painted House of Maud Lewis, Laurie Hamilton, the conservator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, shows how all the different parts of the house - the building itself, the painted household items, even the wallpaper - were catalogued, conserved, and prepared for exhibition. The preliminary stages of conservation treatment began in 1996 in a most unusual location: the Sunnyside Mall in Bedford, just outside Halifax., where conservators worked in full view of the public. The conservators used established techniques and invented new ones to complete their unique project and documented every stage of the restoration photographically. The book also features more than sixty-five colour photos including several taken by noted photographer Bob Brooks in 1965 for the Star Weekly. Today, anyone can visit the tiny house that has become a folk art phenomenon. The restoration story spans two decades, but the story of the Painted House continues as each new visitor to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia finds delight and inspiration in Maud LewisÃÂs joyous vision. " First Edition Fine 8vo - over 7ÃÂ" - 9ÃÂ" tall Trade Paperback Bookseller reference : 003650 |
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. This Springfield merchant was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church, where Mary Todd Lincoln was a parishioner and sometimes dragged her skeptical husband; Lewis testified, "Not long after Dr. Smith [pastor of this church] came to Springfield, and I think very near the time of his son's death, Mr. Lincoln said to me, that when on a visit somewhere, he had seen and partially read a work of Dr. Smith on the evidences of Christianity which had led him to change his views about the Christian religion; that he would like to get that work to finish the reading of it, and also to make the acquaintance of Dr. Smith. I was an elder in Dr. Smith's church, and took Dr. Smith to Mr. Lincoln's office and introduced him; and Dr. Smith gave Mr. Lincoln a copy of his book, as I know, at his own request" -- and Lincoln supposedly accepted Christianity; but according to Lincoln's notoriously unreliable law partner, William Herndon, "Mr. Lewis's veracity and integrity in this community need no comment. I have heard good men say they would not believe his word under any circumstances, especially were he interested. I hate to state this of Tom, but if he will intrude himself in this discussion, I cannot help but say a word in self-defense. Mr. Lincoln detested this man, I know. The idea that Mr. Lincoln would go to Tom Lewis and reveal to him his religious convictions, is to me, and to all who know Mr. Lincoln and Tom Lewis, too absurd." DS, 2pp (recto and verso), 8" X 10", Springfield, IL, 1845 July 11. Very good. Mild even age toning; slightest bit of edgewear. Complex legal "assignment" involving Lewis and James L. Lamb on one hand and brothers Alexander and Morris Lindsay on the other having to do with payment of a $16,000 loan from the State Bank of Illinois and a parcel of land in Chicago bordered by Lake, Morgan and Randolph Streets. It would take a banker or attorney to decipher this legalese -- but research shows that Thomas Lewis, along with a group of male Springfield notables (including Abraham Lincoln), entered an agreement in 1838 with the State Bank of Illinois to borrow more than $16,000, agreeing to repay at 6% interest semi-annually, and the final settlement of this transaction took place in February 1846. This document certainly involves this same loan repayment.Signed boldly by Lewis at the conclusion. A retained draft -- possibly Lewis's, for it is not also signed by his partner in this assignment (Lamb). Morris Lindsay, by the way, was a deputy postmaster in Springfield. Bookseller reference : AUTOGRAPHS-4245 |
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The Enemy No.3. A Review of Art and Literature. Editor Wyndham Lewis. First Quarter 1929. London. The Arthur Press. 1929, First Edition. Printed Wrapper , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Wyndham Lewis. Colour cover design by Lewis, further b/w drawings by Lewis, a portait of Lewis. Covers lightly rubbed and very slight rodent nibbling to lower cover and last few pages. Light foxing. Very Good/No Jacket. Bookseller reference : 002639 |
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Lady Lewisís Only Novel [LEWIS, Lady Maria Theresa Villiers Lister]. Dacre: A Novel. Edited by the Countess of Morley. In Three Volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834. First edition of Lady Lewisís only novel. Three twelvemo volumes (7 3/16 x 4 3/8 inches; 183 x 112 mm.). [2], 298; [2], 348; [2], 347, [1, printerís imprint] pp. Bound without the half-titles and without the publisherís catalogue called for by Wolff but not Sadleir. Contemporary half black calf, ruled in blind, over marbled boards. Smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt and blind with two dark green morocco gilt lettering labels. Marbled edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing and browning, occasional soiling. Early ink armorial ownership stamp (of Viscount Esher?) on front pastedown of each volume. A very good, fresh copy. First edition of this intriguing and overlooked silver fork novel by the wife of T.H. Lister, whose Granby is perhaps the definitive example of the genre. "In 1830 [T.H. Lister] married Teresa Villiers, whose brother George became Earl of Clarendon. Teresaís engagement to Henry Fox, son of Lord Holland, had been broken off by his parentsí interference, although Teresa was much admired and was said to be brilliantly clever. Deeply attached to Fox, in the next four years she refused numerous proposals before accepting Henry Listerî (Alison Adburgham, Silver Fork Society, pp. 93-94). Lady Maria Theresa Lewis (1803-1865), "biographer, was only daughter of George Villiers, third son of Thomas Villiers, first earl of Clarendon, by his wife, Theresa Parker, daughter of the first Lord Boringdon. George Frederick William Villiers, fourth earl of Clarendon, the well-known statesman, was her brother, and she was granted the precedence of an earlís daughter February 1839. She was born on 8 March 1803, and married for the first time, on 6 Nov. 1830, Thomas Henry Lister, who died in 1842. On 26 Oct. 1844 she married her second husband, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, bart. Lady Theresa had a taste for literature. She was descended in the female line from Edward Hyde, the great earl of Clarendon, whose life was written by her first husband, and in 1852 she published in three volumes ëThe Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon;í the book gives biographies of most of the people whose portraits were to be found in the Clarendon gallery at The Grove, Watford, which had descended successively to her father and brother; the lives of Lord Falkland, Lord Capel, and the Marquis of Hertford occupy the greater part of the volumes. Miss Mary Berry was so well impressed with the undertaking that she bequeathed her papers to Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, Lady Theresa's father-in-law, with the proviso that in the event of his death they were to go to Lady Theresa. Accordingly, in 1865 was published in three volumes ëExtracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the year 1783 to 1852,í edited by Lady Theresa Lewis. The work is judiciously done. Lady Lewis also edited a novel by the Hon. Emily Eden, and dramatised two fairy tales for juvenile performers. She survived her husband two years, and died 9 Nov. 1865, at the principal's lodgings, Brasenose College, Oxfordî (D.N.B.). On the title is a thought-provoking epigraph from Benjamin Constant (from his novel Adolphe (1816-1819)?): "Un ouvrage d'imagination ne doit pas avoir un bût moral, mais un résultat moral. Il doit ressembler, à cet égard, à la vie humaine, qui n'a pas un bût, mais qui toujours a un résultat dans lequel la morale trouve nécessairement sa place.î Mrs. Listerís novel was "edited byî another accomplished lady of the day (and correspondent of Jane Austenís), Frances Talbot Parker, Countess of Morley. Sadleir 1441. Wolff 4155. Bookseller reference : 00509 
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New York, Signet Classic; NAL. 1961, 12th printing. Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. CQ344. First published, 1922. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Nobel Prize-Winner. "Sinclair Lewis created one of the most compelling and disturbing characters of American fiction in this portrait of a hardened, conniving, social-climbing real-estate man in his classic work Babbitt. Through detailed depictions of the protagonist's home, work, and social life, a meticulous landscape is created, representing the beliefs, aspirations, and failures of the American middle class. / Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair’s socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, and in the period from Ann Vickers (1933) to the posthumously published World So Wide (1951) Lewis wrote ten novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street, a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, and after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace." - Publisher. Good. Bookseller reference : 010764 |
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Map of Suffolk [ drawn and engraved for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary ] Published by S. Lewis & Co. London, no date given, approximately 1842. Drawn by R. Creighton, engraved by T. Starling. 24 x 32 cm engraved map with hand coloured boundaries, a folding plate taken from the Atlas Volume Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England, First Edition thus, small tears to top margin and larger tears at fold have been repaired with archive tape, there is some slight shadowing of print across the fold, map in good + condition, 24 x32 cm, Map. Bookseller reference : 20813 |
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New York, Signet Classic; NAL. 1961, Reprint. Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. CQ344. First published, 1922. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Nobel Prize-Winner. "Sinclair Lewis created one of the most compelling and disturbing characters of American fiction in this portrait of a hardened, conniving, social-climbing real-estate man in his classic work Babbitt. Through detailed depictions of the protagonist's home, work, and social life, a meticulous landscape is created, representing the beliefs, aspirations, and failures of the American middle class. / Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair’s socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, and in the period from Ann Vickers (1933) to the posthumously published World So Wide (1951) Lewis wrote ten novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street, a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, and after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace." - Publisher. Good. Bookseller reference : 017489 |
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Burnely, Vic: NMA Publications, 2001. ¶ One of fifty signed and numbered boxed sets, each with 152 printed cards of offset lithography executed by Jens Hausch at Image Machine in Sydney; 1 x audio cd with voice work by Ruark Lewis and digital manipulations by Rainer Linz (duration 13.59 minutes) - disc signed by both Lewis and Linz; and 3 colour lithographs numbered and signed by the artist, printed by Editions Tremblay at Bungandore. Ruark Lewis is a visual artist and writer-performer, who works in experimental literature and audio arts in new media installations and painting. Lewis's drawing practice is concerned with the process of translation and accordingly the overriding generic title employed is 'Transcription Drawing'. The intention is to create a transfer from one form to another, that is the poetic form is manifested visually translated. The poetic text is transcribed to convey the essence which becomes transfigured through the new medium. In the process of creating the surface there are varying degrees of distortion and in a final poem-sequence Lewis dissolves the text altogether into the ground of the image. Lewis's work has been exhibited in Australia, in England at the Richard Salmon Gallery London and the prestigious Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, in Germany at the Sprengel Museum Hannover and in Holland and Spain. A major commission is the permanent installation Relay created for the Sydney Olympic Games 2000. His work is in the collections of the state galleries of New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, as well as the National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Museum op die Book Den Haag, Chelsea School of Art/London Institute, Kunstbibliothek Berlin, British Library London, Victoria & Albert Museum London. ISBN:0957754922. All housed in a luminous cherry red buckram clamshell box by Wayne Stock. 180mm X 165mm X 70mm. [1.1 kg] Bookseller reference : 25989 |
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Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott Harcourt Brace & Company, 1921. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 1921 HARDCOVER. Minor shelf wear, owner information inside front cover and first page, binding loose-pages intact, pages toned. "Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters". His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values. His style is at times droll, satirical, yet sympathetic. Born Harry Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. A dreamer, at age 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. He received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1908. He began his writing career by producing romantic poetry, then followed with romantic stories about knights and fair ladies. Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, which appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. By 1921 he had six novels published. Lewis was known for giving strong characterization to modern working women and for his concern with race. Some of his most famous books were Main Street and Babbitt. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 -- which he rejected -- for Arrowsmith, a novel about an idealistic doctor. Elmer Gantry was the story of an opportunistic evangelist, if not an outright charlatan; it was banned in Boston and other U.S. cities (Main Street, Babbitt, Kingsblood Royal, and Cass Timberlane have also all been banned at one time or another). In his Nobel lecture, he lamented that "in America most of us -- not readers alone but even writers -- are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glory hole of our faults as well as our virtues," and that America is "the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." In 1928 he married journalist Dorothy Thompson and in 1930 their son Michael Lewis was born. Restless, Lewis traveled a lot and in the 1920s he would spend time with other great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris, France where he would be photographed by Man Ray. His last great work was It Can't Happen Here, a speculative novel about the election of a fascist as U.S. President. Alcohol played a dominant role in his life; he died of the effects of advanced alcoholism in Rome. He created the fictional cities of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota and Zenith, Winnemac." -- Wikipedia. Bookseller reference : 054131 |
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Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott (the Living Library) World Publishing Company, 1946. Hard Cover. Ill.: Lowengrund, Margaret. Good/No Jacket. 1946 HARDCOVER. 480 pages. Average shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean & bright. "Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters". His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values. His style is at times droll, satirical, yet sympathetic. Born Harry Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. A dreamer, at age 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. He received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1908. He began his writing career by producing romantic poetry, then followed with romantic stories about knights and fair ladies. Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, which appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. By 1921 he had six novels published. Lewis was known for giving strong characterization to modern working women and for his concern with race. Some of his most famous books were Main Street and Babbitt. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 -- which he rejected -- for Arrowsmith, a novel about an idealistic doctor. Elmer Gantry was the story of an opportunistic evangelist, if not an outright charlatan; it was banned in Boston and other U.S. cities (Main Street, Babbitt, Kingsblood Royal, and Cass Timberlane have also all been banned at one time or another). In his Nobel lecture, he lamented that "in America most of us -- not readers alone but even writers -- are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glory hole of our faults as well as our virtues," and that America is "the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." In 1928 he married journalist Dorothy Thompson and in 1930 their son Michael Lewis was born. Restless, Lewis traveled a lot and in the 1920s he would spend time with other great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter in Paris, France where he would be photographed by Man Ray. His last great work was It Can't Happen Here, a speculative novel about the election of a fascist as U.S. President. Alcohol played a dominant role in his life; he died of the effects of advanced alcoholism in Rome. He created the fictional cities of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota and Zenith, Winnemac." -- Wikipedia. Bookseller reference : 068361 |
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LEWIS BALTZ: THE POLITICS OF BACTERIA/DOCILE BODIES/RONDE DE NUIT - SIGNED BY LEWIS BALTZ Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art & RAM Publications., 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-914357-57-3) Pictorial Boards, 4to, 59pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the stylishly designed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1998 Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition consisting of three installations of Lewis Baltz' large-scale photographic works; "Ronde de Nuit", "Docile Bodies", and "The Politics of Bacteria". A pristine copy SIGNED by the photographer in ink on the colophon, at the rear.. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. Bookseller reference : 015179 ISBN : 0914357573 
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THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK (LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION). MARINER BOOKS 1997 In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank -- not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, writes Bernard DeVoto, was "the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future. There has never been another so excellent or so influential...It satisfied desire and created desire: the desire of the westering nation." 576 Paperback Proche du neuf 0395859964 Bookseller reference : 151489 |
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THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED LEWIS CARROLL WORDSWORTH CLASSICS HERFORDSHIRE, 1998 TB, 1184 S., Ohne handschriftliche Eintragungen im Text, sehr schoenes Exemplar in sehr gutem Zustand, ohne Namenseintragung, ungelesen, von: Carroll, Lewis. The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll, Zustand: 1, wie neu - gebraucht, The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll, Carroll, Lewis 1853268976 wie neu - gebraucht Bookseller reference : BU021729 |
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LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK F LEWIS LEIGH ON SEA 1978 John Frederick Lewis RA (1805-1876). The first monograph and catalogue of the works of J.F. Lewis, whose extensive travels are reflected in his work. Bound buckram. 29x23cm. 102 pages. 75 illustrations. Colour frontispiece. Damaged copy. Bookseller reference : 2318 |
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LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK F LEWIS LEIGH ON SEA 1978 John Frederick Lewis RA (1805-1876). The first monograph and catalogue of the works of J.F. Lewis, whose extensive travels are reflected in his work. Bound buckram. 29x23cm. 102 pages. 75 illustrations. Colour frontispiece. Damaged copy. Bookseller reference : 1479 |
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SURPRISED BY JOY: THE SHAPE OF MY EARLY LIFE. HARCOURT, INC., SAN DIEGO: 1956. Softcover. Brand new book. An unfailingly honest and acutely perceptive observer of humanity, C. S. Lewis recounts his search for joy, a spiritual journey thatled him from a traditional Christian childhood in Belfast to a youthful atheism and, finally, back to a confident Christianity. Lewis candidly and sensitively describes his early school days, his experiences in the trenches during World War I, and his undergraduate life at Oxford D where he reasoned his way back to God. It is perhaps the common-sensical aspect of his conversion to Christianity that makes Lewis's story so compelling and meaningful, especially to contemporary readers who are believers and nonbelievers alike. "I read C. e. Lewis for comfort and pleasure many years ago, and a glance at the books revives my old admiration." D John Updike. Bookseller reference : 28419X1 |
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Photos et lettres de Lewis Carroll aux petites filles. Éditeur Franco Maria Ricci (FMR), Milan, Italie, 1976. Small folio, original French edition, hard bound in publisher's black silk covers, gilt decorations on first panel with paste down sepia photo, gilt title on spine, decorative end papers, issued in a black card board slip case. 9 pages introductory essay by Jean Gattegno followed by 195 pages with touching letters addressed to young girls and 41 tipped-in sepia plates by Lewis CARROLL, all on hand made blue Fabriano paper. A chronology of L. Carroll at end of book. Limited edition, n°2345 out of 3000 copies, signed by the publisher. Covers with tiny rubs to corners, else in mint condition. Slip case with 7cm split on top edge and top spine + small scotch tape on recto. See photos. Edition originale française. Petit in-folio, 35x24cm, cartonné, couverture soie noire de l'éditeur, orné d'une photo contrecollée avec titre et décorations dorés sur 1er plat. Étui en carton noir. Pages de garde illustrées. 9 pp. intro. par Jean Gattegno, suivies de 195 pp. de correspondances adressées aux jeunes filles et 41 photos en sépia, de Lewis Carroll, contrecollées sur papier bleu fait à la main. Une chronologie de L. Carroll à la fin d'ouvrage. Édition limitée, n° 2345 sur 3000 ex., signé par l'éditeur. Couverture et dos en très bon état, avec minuscule frottement aux coins. Intérieur en état neuf. Étui avec qq. traces d'usage. Un rare et très bel ouvrage. Voir photos. Bookseller reference : 010106 
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Oeuvres - I. Édition établie par Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, avec la collaboration de Germain Malbreil. PARIS, NRF / Gallimard - 25 Juin 1979 - R.17,5x11,5 - Pleine peau marron, dos lisse titré et orné or; fausse jaquette blanche au premier plat illustré d'un portrait en noir; jaquette Rhodoïd transparent; tranche de tête bleutée; 2 signets rouges; XLI, (4), 1815 et (13) pages; papier bible. (Collection Bibliothèque de la Pléiade - 277). Dos de la jaquette Rhodoïd roussi (ne se voit pas sur l'ouvrage). Bon état. Introduction générale - Chronologie - Bibliographie (G. Rodis-Lewis). De la recherche de la vérité (Texte établi, présenté et annoté par G. Rodis-Lewis). Réponse à M. Régis (extraits). Éclaircissements sur la recherche de la vérité (Textes établis, présentés et annotés par G. Malbreil). Conversations chrétiennes (Texte établi, présenté et annoté par G. Rodis-Lewis). Notices, notes et variantes. Bookseller reference : 46096 |
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xiv + 88pp. Decorated with Portrait medallion of the author on title-page in blue. Printed on a Heidelberg cylinder press in 14pt Bembo, the title in Perpetua Light Titling, some poems hand-set by David Vickers and Eric Gee. Edition limited to 450 copies on Tullis Russell Mellotex smooth high white paper. Bound by Smith Settle in quarter grey cloth with light blue paper boards, gold rule, portrait medallion in gold on upper cover, titled in gold on the spine, top edge coloured. This is No. XLVIII of the Special Binding edition (75 copies only), bound as above but in quarter grey goatskin, gold rule, top edge gilt. One small and insignificant scuff mark on rearboard, internally as new. A handsome book. Mae'n debyg fod Saunders Lewis yn brif lenor Cymraeg yr ugeinfed ganrif. Oedd ei gyfraniad at fywyd diwyllianol, gwleidyddol a llenyddol Cymru yn sylfaenol. Ymhlith ei weithiau mae ei farddoniaeth yn disgleirio fel crynodiad o'i ddoniau. Yn cynnwys 42 o gerddi a 9 emynau, dyma lyfr teilwng o'r dyn. (Saunders Lewis (1893-1985) was probably Wales' greatest writer of the XXth Century, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lewis left it to his literary executor, Professor Geraint Gruffydd (Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and a member of the Press Committee), to decide what should be done after his death with his poems, of which no collected edition was available. After consultation with his daughter, it was decided to proceed with publication. This edition is worthy of a great poet.) Bookseller reference : 1038 ISBN : 0948714166 
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First editions; two volumes; small folio; original paper wrappers. No 1, June 20, 1914, pink paper wrappers. No 2, July 1915, paper wrappers with black and white Vorticist design by Lewis. In December 1913, Ezra Pound wrote to William Carlos Williams calling the London art/literary scene 'The Vortex.' Wyndham Lewis appropriated the term for his new movement in the arts. The first issue of Blast, A Review of the Great English Vortex, is now considered one of this century's finest examples of modernist expression and typography a milestone in modern thought. Blast came as a shock with the wrappers in violent pink, the large format displaying radical typography and design, featuring a 'Vorticist Manifesto' and eye-catching list of items to be 'Blessed' and 'Blasted.' 'Blasted' are, France, English Humour, Victorianism, aesthetes, the Anglican Church, popular writers and composers, do-gooders, sportsmen; 'Blessed' are British Industry, trade unionists, aviators, music hall entertainers, hairdressers, ports, and members of the avant-garde. Also included are important essays by Lewis, original line cuts by such artists as Lewis, Wadsworth, Roberts, Jacob Epstein and Gaudier-Brzeska, and literary contributions from the Pound, Lewis, Rebecca West, Ford Madox Ford ('The Saddest Story,' later to become 'The Good Soldier'). The second and final issue of Blast has more propaganda on behalf of Vorticism in painting, sculpture and literature. It also contains prose and poetry by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and the historic instructive aesthetics of 'Vortex (written from the Trenches)' by Gaudier-Brzeska _ a piece composed just before the sculptor's death in France. These are very fragile productions. Volume one has 4cms of loss to the head of the spine and some fraying and slight loss to the foot. The wrappers from volume 2 have become detached but they are complete apart from slight loss to the foot of the spine. Slight foxing to the edges of the text block of both volumes but internally they are both clean. More images can be provided on request. Bookseller reference : 1491 |
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Woodcut Christmas Card from Walter Lewis at Cambridge University Press. Card [image size 15.5 x 10 cms] with decorative woodcut calligraphic-style text in white on ochre, excellent. � Text reads 'AD 1929. Every Good Wish for Christmas & the New Year from The University Press, Cambridge. [woodcut initials] W.L.' Probably designed by Walter Lewis, Printer to CUP, or possibly by Stanley Morison, his close assistant from 1925. Lewis 'did not claim to be a typographer but he could make an elegant, perhaps rather feminine layout ... and liked to introduce allusive ornament on a title-page - a star border for a military biography, a key pattern for Greek antiquity' [Crutchley : Two Men]. The following year Lewis issued the first in the long series of CUP Christmas books. Bookseller reference : 7631 |
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