Kingblood Royal

New York: Random House, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. striated red cloth, front cover with silver and white initials, backstrip decorated in black with gilt lettering. Teg. Fine in very good brown publisher slipcase with spine lettering. 348 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 768 of 1050 signed by Sinclair Lewis in black ink, printed on Laid paper. The first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. H.L. Mencken called him "a red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." Bright, very fresh copy. Title page printed in red and black.