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  First Edition of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Novelist Alison Lurie and In the Uncommon Original Dust Jacket

  LEWIS, Sinclair.

  It Can’t Happen Here.

  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.

  First edition of Lewis' later masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to novelist Alison Lurie, "To Alison with love Sinclair Lewis." The recipient, Alison Lurie was a novelist, critic, and professor whose work occupied a distinctive niche in postwar literary culture — sharp, satirical, and quietly subversive beneath a surface of social comedy. A longtime member of the English faculty at Cornell University, she brought an academic's precision to her fiction without sacrificing readability, producing novels that dissected the manners and hypocrisies of educated American life with the cool detachment of an anthropologist. Her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, cementing her reputation as one of the more astute chroniclers of class, gender, and the peculiar anxieties of intellectual society. Beyond her fiction, Lurie made significant contributions to the study of children's literature and the semiotics of dress — her 1981 work The Language of Clothes remains a touchstone in fashion studies. Though she was never quite absorbed into the canonical center of late-twentieth-century American letters, her influence on the comic novel of manners was considerable. Near fine in a very good dust j...

  Price: $4,800.00     Item Number: 151701

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  First Edition of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here; Inscribed by Him and In the Uncommon Original Dust Jacket

  LEWIS, Sinclair.

  It Can’t Happen Here.

  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.

  First edition of Lewis' later masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Tom Cracroft who had to build Ft. Beulah. Sinclair Lewis Oct. 27, 1936." Good in a good dust jacket. Rare in the original dust jacket and signed.

  Price: $3,000.00     Item Number: 151533

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