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LEWIS'S COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Dodsworth. 8vo, navy cloth stamped in orange, cover rubbed, spine heavily rubbed and darkened;
LEWIS'S COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Dodsworth. 8vo, navy cloth stamped in orange, cover rubbed, spine heavily rubbed and darkened; internally sound; married to dust jacket from a later edition. New York, (1929)
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Notes: first edition. inscribed to his wife dorothy: "To Dorothy, in memory of Handelstrasse, Moscow, Kitzbühl, London, Naples, Cornwall, Shropshire, Kent, Sussex, Vermont, New York, Homosassa, and all the other places in which I wrote this book ( -- + this is the first copy of it I've seen) or in which she rewrote me. Hal / Homosassa, Fla. March 2, 1929."
The inscription reflects the numerous places Lewis and his journalist wife, Dorothy Thompson, visited while writing the semi-autobiographical Dodsworth, partly an effort to recover from a nervous breakdown. As a result of his traveling, drinking, social life, and marital upheavals, among other incidents, the Twenties became increasingly stressful for Lewis. A particularly bad incident occurred in the year preceding Dodsworth when Lewis and Thompson filed a complaint against Theodore Dreiser, who wrote a book about the current state of Russia that was, in their opinion, too similar to Dorothy's series of articles published at the same time. The grudge erupted into the now famous slap-fight between Lewis and Dreiser at a Metropolitan Club dinner two years later over the former's verbal outburst accusing Dreiser of plagiarism.
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