SIGNED & INSCRIBED SINCLAIR LEWIS “THE INNOCENTS” FIRST EDITION 1917- TO MY OLD FRIEND HERBERT HERRON… RARE IN A NICE DUST JACKET. A story for lovers /. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1917. Signed and inscribed, “Sinclair Lewis To My Old Friend Herbert Herron, Carmel, April, 7, 1933, ” to the front free end page of this first edition bound in lightly worn gray cloth with faint hint of red discoloration along rear gutter. Modest professional restoration to the dust jacket’s spine ends – small chip to lower front corner. Collector’s label affixed to rear pastedown. Complete in 217 bright fresh pages. Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! Everything we sell is Returnable for any reason. We only ask for prompt notification, within 14 days. Don’t hesitate to ask for more info/detail on any of our listings. HOFFMAN BOOKS, ABAA, IOBA. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harry Sinclair Lewis February 7, 1885 Sauk Centre, Minnesota. January 10, 1951 (aged 65) Rome. It Can’t Happen Here. Nobel Prize in Literature. Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He became the first author from the United States and the first from the Americas. To receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Which was awarded for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street. (1929), and It Can’t Happen Here. His works were critical of American capitalism. During the interwar period. Lewis is respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. Wrote of him, [If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade… It is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds.