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1 Lewis, Sinclair Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott New York Harcourt, Brace, and Howe 1920 First Edition Hardcover Very Good/No Jacket   Octavo, 451pp., Blue cloth with orange lettering and decoration. Mild soil on fore edge. Book slightly cocked. Some color rubbed out of the cloth at the very tail of the spine. First edition with date on title page. First printing, first state with unbattered "y" on page 387 and unbattered number 54 on page 54. Better than usually found. Lacking the seldom seen dust jacket. In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist. .   Price: 750.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart