Tides in English Taste (1619-1800) : A Background for the Study of Literature by Allen, B. Sprague - 1937

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

NY: Wilfred Funk. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards scuffed, page tops spotted, adhesive . darkened at outer joints, jacket toned at spine and lightly wrinkled at . margins.. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. The quintessential New England novel by a Yankee scion. "This is a story of the bungling by the first families of New England--the last stronghold of sound conservatism--that is the cause of the decline of America's once snugest [sic] industrial domain. The book is written with indignation. Yet also through the story moves one of the most exciting and sophisticated romances of recent fiction. " (from front jacket flap). Grey cloth binding. ; 312 pages .

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Last signature was uncut rather roughly, . bookstore ticket on rear pastedown, boards lightly rubbed, some darkening . of endpapers at inner joints.. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding. Gold lettering on front boards and spine. Faint red topstain. Full title: The Last Tycoon, An Unfinished Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories. Foreword by Edmund Wilson. Fitzgerald died before this novel was finished, but it includes a synopsis of the rest of the plot and the author's actual notes for the full novel, as well as the full text of: The Great Gatsby, May Day, The Diamond as Big as The Ritz, The Rich Boy, Absolution and Crazy Sunday. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 476 pages .

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn along edges and at . head and foot of spine, pages toned, owner name on half-title.. 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial burgundy cloth binding, Gray topstain. A lovely copy of the Nobel Laureate's allegorical novel about trench warfare and passive resistance in World War I. The novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912 unpaginated with 10 color issustrations. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") issued in green cloth with decorative color pictorial in gilt lettering on front cover. 1st edition. Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 May 3, 1935) was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children's books. Born in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia, graduating in 1888. A year later, she started working in the production department of the Ladies Home Journal, for five years. She left to take classes under Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at the Brandywine School. She was a prolific contributor to books and magazines during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrating stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's,… Read More

NY: Wilfred Funk. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards scuffed, page tops spotted, adhesive . darkened at outer joints, jacket toned at spine and lightly wrinkled at . margins.. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. The quintessential New England novel by a Yankee scion. "This is a story of the bungling by the first families of New England--the last stronghold of sound conservatism--that is the cause of the decline of America's once snugest [sic] industrial domain. The book is written with indignation. Yet also through the story moves one of the most exciting and sophisticated romances of recent fiction. " (from front jacket flap). Grey cloth binding. ; 312 pages .

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1939. No dustwrapper, minor wear to spine ends, corners and lower edge of red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine are rubbed but still clear, a previous owner's name on f/ep. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, a novel set among English Methodists in the early 1900s and a sequel to the author's ''Introducing the Arnisons''. Not a common book. 339pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Last signature was uncut rather roughly, . bookstore ticket on rear pastedown, boards lightly rubbed, some darkening . of endpapers at inner joints.. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding. Gold lettering on front boards and spine. Faint red topstain. Full title: The Last Tycoon, An Unfinished Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories. Foreword by Edmund Wilson. Fitzgerald died before this novel was finished, but it includes a synopsis of the rest of the plot and the author's actual notes for the full novel, as well as the full text of: The Great Gatsby, May Day, The Diamond as Big as The Ritz, The Rich Boy, Absolution and Crazy Sunday. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 476 pages .