It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

$600 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1935. First U.K. edition. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of Lewis’s mid-1930s dystopian novel about the fictional ascendancy of fascism in America. As if to spell it out even more overtly for authoritarian-curious Americans, the U.S. dust jacket posited the question “WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN AMERICA HAS A DICTATOR?” The British publisher, Jonathan Cape,

• Binding: Hardcover

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