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Sinclair Lewis Collection

Books with Association Value

Restless is the River / August Derleth -- New York : Scribner’s, 1939.
-- Dedicated to Lewis.

Plays of Gods and Men / Lord Dunsany -- Boston : Luce, 1917.
-- Formerly owned by Lewis; signed.

Pep: J.L. Wetcheeks Amerikanisches Liederbuch / Lion Feuchtwanger ; [illustrationen von Frans Haacken] -- Berlin : Aufbau-Verlag, 1957.
-- Dedicated to Sinclair Lewis.
-- Inscribed by Feuchtwanger to Viktoria Wolff.

Walden / Henry David Thoreau -- New York : Crowell, 1899.
-- Formerly owned by Lewis; signed by him on front free endpaper. His markings and annotations appear throughout. Inside the front cover he has written: "NY Aug. ’07 / Read in noon-hours of freedom from the semi-bondage of ‘Tales’; on benches in Bryant Park; my Walden 2 feet of bench, my pond a drinking fountain, my forest a few elms and maples, where sparrows twittered / SL." Lewis was then working for Transatlantic Tales in New York.

The Crystal Box / Hugh Walpole -- limited ed. -- Glasgow : printed for the author by Robert Maclehose & Co., 1924.
-- Dedicated to Lewis and others.

The Science of Life / H.G. Wells -- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1931.
-- 2 volumes.
-- Formerly owned by Lewis; signed.

The Apple of the Eye / Glenway Westcott -- 1st ed. -- New York : Dial Press, 1924.
-- Inscribed by Lewis to journalist Frazier Hunt.

The Birthday of the Infanta / Oscar Wilde -- New York : Macmillan, 1929.
-- Formerly owned by Grace Lewis; signed and annotated. Two photographs of Wells Lewis in costume pasted to front free endpaper, beneath which Grace has written: "Wells Lewis (son of Sinclair and Grace Lewis) as the Infanta ... June, 1929"




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