[Rarebooks] FS: Rare Signed copy of Jayhawker by Sinclair Lewis

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*Lewis, Sinclair; Lewis, Lloyd*. *Jayhawker: A Play in Three Acts* [*Signed
by Sinclair Lewis*]. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935.
First edition. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing
(spine ends pushed with some tiny fraying, slight amount of fading to the
board edges and spine head as is usual for this title), in a Very Good dust
jacket (chip to the spine head with an associated tear, small chips to the
spine tail and ends of the flap folds, age toning to the edges of the flaps
and rear panel, corner-clipped by the Publisher but not price-clipped and
showing the price at $2.00 -- all unsurprising for this jacket which often
is found worn), SIGNED BY SINCLAIR LEWIS on the title page; Sinclair Lewis'
debut (and only) published Play, a joint effort by Sinclair Lewis and by
Lloyd Lewis, the then drama critic for the Chicago Daily News and a Civil
War history specialist. Sinclair won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature for
"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create,
with wit and humour, new types of characters", making him the first author
from the United States to win the Prize. Declared by Sinclair Lewis
Bibliographer Stephen Pastore to be "...perhaps the scarcest title in the
post-1930 Lewis lexicon", the first edition of Jayhawker consisted of a
mere 1,076 copies. The Play is set during the Kansas Missouri border wars
which took place off and on from about 1855 to 1864. During this period,
militant bands of nominal free-staters who opposed Slavery but who were
willing to pillage, rob, and kill for other reasons as well, adopted the
term to describe themselves. With relatively few copies of the first
edition having been produced and with many of them no doubt having been
claimed by time, first edition copies are rather scarce to the market.
Although signed copies of Sinclair Lewis works generally are not terribly
scarce, signed copies of "Jayhawker" are rare. In addition to having been
signed, this copy bears a notable Provenance, having come from the Estate
of decorated Naval Officer and Actor Douglas Fairbanks whose bookplate
resides on the book's front pastedown. A Very Good+ copy of what itself is
a rather uncommon book, and one hardly ever found signed, SIGNED BY
SINCLAIR LEWIS. RARE. Very Good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
(#00003514)        *$3,250.00* *less 25% = $2,437.50*


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