Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography: A Collector's and Scholar's Guide to Classification (2nd edition)

I was perplexed by this book. At a first flick through it appears to be a meticulously compiled illustrated catalogue of the works of American author, Sinclair Lewis. All 36 of Lewis' published works are identified, plus a few ephemera, from Hike and the Aeroplane (1912), through his famous works such as Main Street (1920), Babbit (1922), Arrowsmith (1925) and Elmer Gantry (1927), to World So Wide (1951), and adding A Sinclair Lewis Reader (1953) and The Complete Works (1984). Each title features a clutch of pages giving a prose introduction, photographs of dustwrappers and bindings, etc., a standardised itemization...