[LEWIS SINCLAIR] Graham Tom Hike and the Aeroplane

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FIRST BOOK [LEWIS, SINCLAIR.] Graham, Tom. Hike and the Aeroplane. Illustrated with 4 duotone plates by Arthur Hutchins including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 8vo, original grey cloth stamped pictorially in orange, dark blue and bluish-grey, lettered in dark blue, scattered soiling, some rubbing to spine tips and corners; internally clean. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1912)

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first edition, first issue of Sinclair Lewis' first book, with "August 1912" printed on the copyright page. A juvenile adventure story inspired by the fictions of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne pseudonymously written as Tom Graham, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Lewis' scarcest title. Pastore 1.