Author: LEWIS, Sinclair
Title: Elmer Gantry
Description: New York, Harcourt Brace, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. First state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Richard Brooks). It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture. About Fine in a Good, unrestored example of the dustwrapper which is soiled with a few short tears, and two small holes on the spine. The dustwrapper is almost completely reinforced internally with brown tape .

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