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It Can't Happen Here.: What Will Happen When America Has a Dictator?
by Lewis, Sinclair
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good plus/Very good minus
- Seller
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Excelsior, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Reprint published by The Sun Dial Press, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1935. 8vo. 8 3/8" by 6". 458pp. Very good plus book in very good minus dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front paste down "In mem. Prodigal Parents" and FFEP "To Frances Whiting from a humble reader of this noble volume, Sinclair Lewis, Stockbridge May 20, 1937." Dark navy cloth covered boards with blind-stamped design on front panel, gilt-stamped lettering and publisher's logo on spine. Upper page edges are blue-tinted. Boards are clean, lettering is clear. Upper edge at head of spine is faintly sunned and back corner has small bump. Side and lower page edges are age-toned, as are text pages. Shadow transfers on end-papers and pp. 54-55. Internally clean and with snug text block.
Dust jacket spine and fore-edges are sunned. All folds are creased and gilt-coating is chipping off. Edges at head and tail of jacket spine are chipped and rubbed and with several small closed vertical tears; front corner at head of spine has loss of approx. 1/4". Back jacket panel has numerous stains, including a damp stain in the upper left corner that carries onto back inside flap. Upper edge of back panel has a 1/2" closed slightly diagonal tear with adjacent creases. Lower edge of back panel has a 3/16" closed vertical tear to the left of center. Shallow horizontal creases along upper and lower edges of front and back panels. All fore-edge corners are rubbed with a small amount of loss. All inside flap corners are uniformly clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.
Synopsis
It is the presidential election of 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency, and his popularity gives way as his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state as he strives to cleanse America of welfare cheats, promiscuity, crime and liberal media. "He was an actor of genius. There was no more overwhelming actor on the stage, in the motion pictures, nor even in the pulpit. He would whirl arms, bang tables, glare from mad eyes, vomit Biblical wrath from a gaping mouth; but he would also coo like a nursing mother, beseech like an aching lover, and in between tricks would coldly and almost contemptuously jab his crowds with figures and facts — figures and facts that were inescapable even when, as often happened, they were entirely incorrect."
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- Bookseller
- Bliss Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20240027
- Title
- It Can't Happen Here.
- Author
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very good minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Sun Dial Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1935
- Pages
- 458
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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