Babbitt / by Sinclair Lewis author of "Main Street"

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle-aged men--Fiction.

Middle-aged men.

Conformity.

Businessmen--Fiction.

Businessmen.

Conformity--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 401 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Rahway, N. J. : Printed in the U. S. A. by the Quinn & Boden Company.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922]

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1922, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc."

First edition first state has on p. 49, line 4 "Supposing Purdy and I ..." and on line 5 "... to Ruin my fellow human ...".--Cf. Pastore.

Publisher's advertisements: [6] p. at end.

Dark blue cloth boards ruled and lettered in orange. Orange panels on front cover and spine lettered in dark blue.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has two profiles drawn on front pastedown with "To - from - ".

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "to Burt Rascoe with the affection of one of the brightest young Sauk Center journalists. Sinclair Lewis. Petipas' Aug. 15, 1922".

Culture Class Collection copy is first edition second state with correction on p. 49, line 4 "Supposing Lyte and I ..." and line 5 " ... to ruin any human ...".

Culture Class Collection copy has portions of newspaper laid in.

Cited in:

Pastore, S. R. : Sinclalr Lewis, p. 73

OCLC:

1024921