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Signet Classic. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harcourt Brace. Very Good.

Independently published, 2017. Paperback. New. 296 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.74 inches.

Harcourt Brace & World, 1961-01-01. Hardcover. New. New book. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1922. First Edition, First Issue. Decorative cloth. Very Good/None. 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4" x 1 1/2"), dark blue cloth with black lettering on orange rectilinear "labels" on spine and front cover, [6] + 401 pages + [6] ADS. Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. <br /> <br /> Lewis is best known for his novels Main Street (1920), BABBITT (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).<br /> <br /> Babbitt explores the moral challenges faced by a typical hard-working American businessman from a Midwestern town who had Conservative middle-class values. The name "Babbitt" became synonymous with narrow-minded bigotry. More successful than Main Street, Babbitt "established Lewis as a major American author"--Pastore,… Read More