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LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Babbitt. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.
8o. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket (some creasing and small losses at edges). Provenance: Hazen Memorial Library (presentation slip from Lewis mounted on front pastedown); Estelle Doheny (bookplate; sold Christie's New York, 21 February 1989, lot 1682 part).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LEWIS TO THE HAZEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY on a slip mounted on the front pastedown: "To The Hazen Memorial Library, with the best wishes of a lover of Virginia. Sinclair Lewis. N.Y. Nov. 1915."
With George Follansbee Babbitt, middle aged, middle class, middle-management, and with a middling mind, Lewis identified a new American type. He also gave a new word to the American language: the name "Babbitt" is now found in most dictionaries (Webster's defines it as "a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle class standards"). Pastore 8.
8o. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket (some creasing and small losses at edges). Provenance: Hazen Memorial Library (presentation slip from Lewis mounted on front pastedown); Estelle Doheny (bookplate; sold Christie's New York, 21 February 1989, lot 1682 part).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LEWIS TO THE HAZEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY on a slip mounted on the front pastedown: "To The Hazen Memorial Library, with the best wishes of a lover of Virginia. Sinclair Lewis. N.Y. Nov. 1915."
With George Follansbee Babbitt, middle aged, middle class, middle-management, and with a middling mind, Lewis identified a new American type. He also gave a new word to the American language: the name "Babbitt" is now found in most dictionaries (Webster's defines it as "a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle class standards"). Pastore 8.