Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Arrowsmith. 8vo, publisher's cream buckram-backed blue paper boards, printed paper spine label, a bit mottled, with extra spine label inserted at rear; top edges gilt, others uncut; a few signatures partially split, bookseller's label to rear pastedown; card slipcase with crude tape repairs, chipped. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1925)

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one of 500 numbered copies signed by lewis, this copy being number 61. 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." Pastore 9.