[Rarebooks] FS: ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER ART Regarding the Famous Fight Between Lewis and Dreiser

[Charles Agvent]

[LEWIS, Sinclair and DREISER, Theodore]. ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER ART 
Regarding the Famous Fight Between Lewis and Dreiser. A 9-1/4" x 7" 
piece of mock-up art used for a newspaper illustration with a photo of 
Lewis with the caption "HE WHO GOT SLAPPED" and a photo of Dreiser with 
the caption "PUNCH IS MIGHTIER THAN PEN," along with drawings of men 
preparing to fight. On the verso is an actual newspaper clipping that 
used the art with an ink stamp stating "Received Examiner Reference 
Library Mar 21 1931." Perhaps the most famous literary fight of the 20th 
century occurred at a dinner honoring a Russian writer when Lewis, asked 
to speak, said, "But I do not care to speak in the presence of one man 
who has plagiarized 3,000 words from my wife’s book on Russia." Dorothy 
Thompson, his wife, had toured Russia in 1927 with a group of American 
writers that included Dreiser. She felt that Dreiser's book about the 
trip -- DREISER LOOKS AT RUSSIA -- borrowed liberally from her articles. 
After the dinner Dreiser confronted Lewis who called him a liar and 
cheat. In response Dreiser slapped him hard, twice, before others 
intervened. The plagiarism charge was later proved correct. Smudging in 
margins. Near Fine. (#019821)        $500

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