Second Book Inscribed
Our Mr. Wrenn. The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First edition. Frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Second Book Inscribed. Original grey cloth gilt, rubbed, some browning and spotting of text, generally light, in custom clamshell box. Merle Johnson p 311.
Item #18218
Inscribed twice by Lewis to Mary Vorse O'Brien and Joseph O'Brien, the first signed only with initials, the other with an inscription "To Joe, & to Mary, (who used to make me 'write some more Mr. Wrenn') from their friend & adorer, Sinclair Lewis" Mary Vorse wrote "The Prestons", "Passaic", "Second Cabin" and "Strike." She spent most of her life in Provincetown. A very nice association copy of his second book.
