[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of BABBITT in dustwrapper

[Charles Agvent]

LEWIS, Sinclair. BABBITT. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1922). First 
Edition. Bibliographically interesting copy in that it is with the 
second state of the text but is a review copy stamped by the publisher 
on the title page as a Sample Copy with a publication date of 14 
September 1922. According to Pastore's bibliography of Lewis, only 9500 
copies of the first state were printed though the book had a 
prepublication printing of 80,500 copies, which would, it seems, account 
for this copy.  In the scarce and fragile dustwrapper which is missing a 
3-1/2" x 1" ragged piece at the bottom of the rear panel and which has a 
1" chip at the base of the spine and a somewhat smaller one at the head. 
About Fine in a Good dustwrapper.                 $850.00	

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