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Elmer Gantry
by LEWIS, Sinclair
- Used
- Signed
- first
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Beverly Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc., [1927].
First edition, second issue binding (with "Gantry" spelled correctly on spine). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp.
Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut. In publisher's dust jacket. Jacket with some very minor rubbing to spine. Jacket with price intact, but corners clipped. Small bookseller label on rear paste down. Overall a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket.
"Elmer Gantry (1927) attacked hypocrisy in the church. Gantry begins his career as a relatively sincere divinity student who is troubled by his strong sexual nature, but he becomes a hypocritical minister and, later, a jackleg traveling evangelist. Some ministers of the day approved of the book as an attack on genuine abuses within their profession, and literary gadfly H. L. Mencken praised its satire of corrupt fundamentalism. Many critics, however, viewed the book as obscene and its satire as overdone." (American Dictionary of National Biography). Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, just three years after the publication on Elmer Gantry.
Pastore.
HBS 67991.
$2,500.
First edition, second issue binding (with "Gantry" spelled correctly on spine). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp.
Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut. In publisher's dust jacket. Jacket with some very minor rubbing to spine. Jacket with price intact, but corners clipped. Small bookseller label on rear paste down. Overall a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket.
"Elmer Gantry (1927) attacked hypocrisy in the church. Gantry begins his career as a relatively sincere divinity student who is troubled by his strong sexual nature, but he becomes a hypocritical minister and, later, a jackleg traveling evangelist. Some ministers of the day approved of the book as an attack on genuine abuses within their profession, and literary gadfly H. L. Mencken praised its satire of corrupt fundamentalism. Many critics, however, viewed the book as obscene and its satire as overdone." (American Dictionary of National Biography). Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, just three years after the publication on Elmer Gantry.
Pastore.
HBS 67991.
$2,500.
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
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67991
- Title
- Elmer Gantry
- Author
- LEWIS, Sinclair
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- American Literature|Modern Firsts|Inscribed Copies|Signed
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