LEWIS, Sinclair.

£850 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Elmer Gantry. First edition, first issue (with spine lettering reading "Elmer Cantry") of the author's "preacher novel" that was "universally condemned by every religious body in the United States" (Pastore, p. 145).Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine, and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections.

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