The Rare Book Collection of the
Chicago Center for Literature and Photography

Cass Timberlane (1945)
By Sinclair Lewis
First Edition, First Printing

DESCRIPTION: The 1945 novel by Sinclair Lewis, the 19th of his career. Although primarily known for his satirical comedies which sent up the mores of the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Lewis continued to publish new work all the way up to his alcoholism-related death in 1951. This particular novel, a domestic soap opera with little social commentary, was first published serially in Cosmopolitan magazine, and was eventually made into a Hollywood movie starring Spencer Tracy and and Lana Turner.

CONDITION: Text: Very Good (VG). Printed during World War Two using wartime material of low quality, like many books printed in these years these pages and inside covers are rapidly browning. as well as displaying fading along the top edges of the outer fabric. Dust jacket: Very Good Minus (VG-). Although it's a bit of a miracle that this delicate wartime dust jacket has survived at all, it's admittedly in rough shape, with a large one-inch chunk completely missing from the top spine, multiple smaller tears along all other edges, and white panels that are rapidly turning brown.

PROVENANCE: Acquired by CCLaP at the Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago, June 2019.