LEWIS SINCLAIR Arrowsmith

Sale 2295 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 1,320

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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

FAMOUS REFUSAL LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Arrowsmith. 8vo, publisher's cream buckram-backed blue paper boards, printed paper spine label, boards, spine and label all clean and bright with just merest darkening to top portion of spine label; extra spine label inserted at rear; top edges gilt, others uncut; card slipcase, edges and corners worn. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1925)

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one of 500 numbered copies signed by lewis, this copy being number 432. The book for which Lewis was awarded the Pulitzer Price and which he famously refused, writing to the committee that their mission statement suggests that "the appraisal of the novels shall be made not according to their actual literary merit but in obedience to whatever code of Good Form may chance to be popular at the moment." A beautiful copy.