[Rarebooks] FS: Sinclair Lewis, inscribed to bookseller Crowell

[Bob Petrilla]

Lewis, Sinclair. THE TRAIL OF THE HAWK [signed by Lewis]: A Comedy of the
Seriousness of Life. NY: Harper & Brothers, (1915). First Edition. pp:
(iii), 408, (1); color frontispiece by Norman Rockwell, tissue guard. First
printing with "Published September 1915" and code H-P on copyright page.
Bound in gilt-stamped blue cloth; spine dull. Lacking the dust jacket as
usual, else in clean, sound condition.  7.5" x 5"
Author's second book. Inscribed and signed on the front free-endpaper: "To
C.R. Crowell from a fellow suffragist--and a fellow book-seller / Sinclair
Lewis / NY Oct. 25, 1915." [C.R. Crowell ran the Doubleday Page bookshop at
Penn Station in New York City. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925, L268.]]
$500.00

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