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LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Main Street. 8vo, publisher's cloth, hint of bowing to front board; dust jacket, three old cellotape repairs over closed tears on verso, particularly to bottom third of spine panel, 5mm chip to center of front panel below title, rear flap detached along fold, edges brittle, scattered chipping including to spine panel tips affecting three letters in first word of title, light overall age-toning; contents clean and unmarked. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920
first edition with harcourt, brace and howe imprint to spine, scarce second issue dust jacket showing matching imprint. Early printing with broken type on both the page 54 folio and "may" at the bottom of page 387. The exceedingly uncommon second issue jacket as here was preceded by the virtually unknown first issue without the "Early Reviews of Main Street" on the front flap or its mention on the back panel. Pastore 7.
