[Rarebooks] FS: Two Signed Photographs of Sinclair Lewis

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest Internet Catalogue: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY 
MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS, a total of 90 items, many quite 
scarce.  Our Boston Book Fair Catalogue will be posted next week and 
includes fine Signed Presidential and Literary items, Early Printed 
Books, and our usual selection of the unusual.

1.  LEWIS,  Sinclair. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. An 8" x  10"  black-and-white
formal  portrait  of  a pensive Lewis, head on his  fist  and  looking
down.  INSCRIBED  and SIGNED by the author on the light background  on
the  left  side: "To Guy/Palmerton/Sinclair Lewis." The photo is  also
signed  in  the image by the photographer, Talbot of New York.  Signed
photographs  by  Lewis  are  uncommon. Ink  photographer's  credit  on
verso.  Two  letters in "Lewis" slightly smudged. Minor  wrinkling  to
upper corners. Still Near Fine                                $1500.00

2.  LEWIS,  Sinclair.  SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. A 5"  x  7"  black-and-white
formal  portrait  by  Harold Stein of the Nobel  Prize-winning  author
seated  and looking directly at the camera. Tipped to an 8" x 10"  mat
and  SIGNED by the author on the mat below the photograph and dated 18
May 1938. Fine                                                $1000.00

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