Author: HOVEY, CARL (EDITOR)
Title: "Snappy Display By Sinclair Lewis" As Found in Metropolitan Magazine August 1917
Description: New York, NY: Metropolitan Magazine Company, 1917. Magazine. Illustrated by C. H. Taffs. Cover Art; This issue includes a very early short story by Sinclair Lewis - "Snappy Display", featuring Lancelot Todd, a businessman and con man - who is an early instance of the type of unscrupulous businessman found in his Famous "Babbitt". This is an oversized magazine (folio sized) with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a light crease to the top rear corner of the cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: Snappy Display by Sinclair Lewis, The Testing of Mary Regan by LeRoy Scott, The Indian Drum (serial ) by Edwind Balmer and William MacHarg, The King's Cup by Lawrence Perry, Why the English Worker No Longer Calls the German Comrade by William Hard, Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and the Secretary of War by Th. Roosevelt, and more. "Of special interest in this collection are four stories that involve a dazzling con man named Lancelot Todd, whom Lewis introduces, in a story titled “Snappy Display, ” with words that show the writer hitting his stride as a satirist: “Lancelot is an artist of advertising; a compound of punch, power, pep, and purest rot serene. You have doubtless heard his addresses, Upward and Pupward, ’ and The Smash and Lash that put the Zing! In Advertising, ’… You have noticed in editorials in syndicated house-organs, and his signed advertisements of everything from cocaine to arts-and-grafts coffins. You may even own one of his books; perhaps Fishin’ for Effishincy’ or Are You Toting Old Man Sloth on Your Shoulders? ’… [Lancelot] joined every possible organization, from the Jolly Bowlers to The Young Men’s Wesleyan Circle, and made a business of being familiar and agreeable with every member who had an income of more than four thousand dollars a year." (Sinclair Lewis. If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Di Renz). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Carl Hovey Metropolitan Magazine C. H. Taffs Sinclair Lewis Lancelot Todd Businessmen Con Men
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Title: "Snappy Display By Sinclair Lewis" As Found in Metropolitan Magazine August 1917
Description: New York, NY: Metropolitan Magazine Company, 1917. Magazine. Illustrated by C. H. Taffs. Cover Art; This issue includes a very early short story by Sinclair Lewis - "Snappy Display", featuring Lancelot Todd, a businessman and con man - who is an early instance of the type of unscrupulous businessman found in his Famous "Babbitt". This is an oversized magazine (folio sized) with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a light crease to the top rear corner of the cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: Snappy Display by Sinclair Lewis, The Testing of Mary Regan by LeRoy Scott, The Indian Drum (serial ) by Edwind Balmer and William MacHarg, The King's Cup by Lawrence Perry, Why the English Worker No Longer Calls the German Comrade by William Hard, Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and the Secretary of War by Th. Roosevelt, and more. "Of special interest in this collection are four stories that involve a dazzling con man named Lancelot Todd, whom Lewis introduces, in a story titled “Snappy Display, ” with words that show the writer hitting his stride as a satirist: “Lancelot is an artist of advertising; a compound of punch, power, pep, and purest rot serene. You have doubtless heard his addresses, Upward and Pupward, ’ and The Smash and Lash that put the Zing! In Advertising, ’… You have noticed in editorials in syndicated house-organs, and his signed advertisements of everything from cocaine to arts-and-grafts coffins. You may even own one of his books; perhaps Fishin’ for Effishincy’ or Are You Toting Old Man Sloth on Your Shoulders? ’… [Lancelot] joined every possible organization, from the Jolly Bowlers to The Young Men’s Wesleyan Circle, and made a business of being familiar and agreeable with every member who had an income of more than four thousand dollars a year." (Sinclair Lewis. If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Di Renz). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Carl Hovey Metropolitan Magazine C. H. Taffs Sinclair Lewis Lancelot Todd Businessmen Con Men
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- Book number: 48462
- Book number: 48462
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