[LEWIS, SINCLAIR]. Hike and the Aeroplane. By Tom Graham. New York: Stokes [1912]. 8vo, original grayish-tan pictorial cloth, worn, front inner hinge repaired, rear one cracked; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's rare first book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Margaret Pharr with the love of the author, 'Tom Graham,' otherwise -- Sinclair Lewis," with four illustrations by Arthur Hutchins. Laid in is a typed letter signed from Lewis to Margaret Pharr, Minnesota [8 August 1913], 1/2 page 4to, a fold tear touching the "S" in "Sinclair": "My wife and I were terribly sorry to miss you...we had to start west, and here we are! We're going to spend the winter in St. Paul, where I shall be writing a long serial. But some day we'll be back in NY..." John S. Van E. Kohn, Seven Gables Bookshop, First Books by American Authors (New York, 1965), item no. 175 (not this copy): "One thousand copies were printed, but all but a handful were read to death by the teen-age audience for whom the tale was written. Lewis was twenty-seven, and Main Street was still eight years ahead."Provenance: Barton Currie, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 8 May 1963, lot 277); with two (amusing) typed letters signed from Margaret Pharr to Barton Currie ("Uncle Barton") regarding the sale of this copy -- Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part III, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 April 1978, lot 774). (4)

[LEWIS, SINCLAIR]. Hike and the Aeroplane. By Tom Graham. New York: Stokes [1912]. 8vo, original grayish-tan pictorial cloth, worn, front inner hinge repaired, rear one cracked; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's rare first book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Margaret Pharr with the love of the author, 'Tom Graham,' otherwise -- Sinclair Lewis," with four illustrations by Arthur Hutchins. Laid in is a typed letter signed from Lewis to Margaret Pharr, Minnesota [8 August 1913], 1/2 page 4to, a fold tear touching the "S" in "Sinclair": "My wife and I were terribly sorry to miss you...we had to start west, and here we are! We're going to spend the winter in St. Paul, where I shall be writing a long serial. But some day we'll be back in NY..." John S. Van E. Kohn, Seven Gables Bookshop, First Books by American Authors (New York, 1965), item no. 175 (not this copy): "One thousand copies were printed, but all but a handful were read to death by the teen-age audience for whom the tale was written. Lewis was twenty-seven, and Main Street was still eight years ahead." Provenance: Barton Currie, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 8 May 1963, lot 277); with two (amusing) typed letters signed from Margaret Pharr to Barton Currie ("Uncle Barton") regarding the sale of this copy -- Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part III, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 April 1978, lot 774). (4)

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[LEWIS, SINCLAIR]. Hike and the Aeroplane. By Tom Graham. New York: Stokes [1912]. 8vo, original grayish-tan pictorial cloth, worn, front inner hinge repaired, rear one cracked; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's rare first book, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Margaret Pharr with the love of the author, 'Tom Graham,' otherwise -- Sinclair Lewis," with four illustrations by Arthur Hutchins. Laid in is a typed letter signed from Lewis to Margaret Pharr, Minnesota [8 August 1913], 1/2 page 4to, a fold tear touching the "S" in "Sinclair": "My wife and I were terribly sorry to miss you...we had to start west, and here we are! We're going to spend the winter in St. Paul, where I shall be writing a long serial. But some day we'll be back in NY..." John S. Van E. Kohn, Seven Gables Bookshop, First Books by American Authors (New York, 1965), item no. 175 (not this copy): "One thousand copies were printed, but all but a handful were read to death by the teen-age audience for whom the tale was written. Lewis was twenty-seven, and Main Street was still eight years ahead."

Provenance: Barton Currie, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 8 May 1963, lot 277); with two (amusing) typed letters signed from Margaret Pharr to Barton Currie ("Uncle Barton") regarding the sale of this copy -- Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part III, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 April 1978, lot 774). (4)