[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Association Copy of Sinclair Lewis's BETHEL MERRIDAY

[Charles Agvent]

LEWIS, Sinclair. BETHEL MERRIDAY. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 
Inc., 1940. First Edition. "A Novel of the Young Girl on the Stage." 
Dustwrapper art by John Falls. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the dedicatee on 
the dedication page: "To Gordon Harris/But for whom this/dedication may 
never/have occurred./Cornelius H. Traeger/N.Y.C. July 12, 1940." Also 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Lewis on the front endpaper: "To Gordon 
Harris/from another victim/of the deadly/Traeger habit/Sinclair 
Lewis/N.Y./June 22, 1940." From a book review in the 7 February 1949 
issue of TIME Magazine: "On a June day in 1947, Manhattan Physician 
Cornelius Traeger suddenly took leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to 
visit a patient: 'I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this 
weekend.' Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen 
doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a 
tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy 
and planned to enter Harvard that fall." Johnny Gunther, of course, was 
the subject of DEATH BE NOT PROUD, the best-selling book by his father, 
John Gunther, and the subject of this review. Browning to endpapers with 
no significant effect on Lewis's inscription; cloth spine sunned. Very 
Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with staining along the edges from the 
removal of a previous jacket protector. (#020395) $1,500

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