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1919. First Edition . Signed. ANDERSON, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919. Octavo, original yellow cloth, printed paper spine label, cartographic front pastedown. $17,500.First edition, scarce first issue of ""Anderson's first important work, and possibly his finest"" (Sheehy & Lohf), ""To Florence D. Briscoe, Sherwood Anderson.""Although he had already published two novels and a book of poetry, Anderson did not receive widespread attention until he produced this book, ""establishing him as a leading figure in the Chicago literary renaissance"" (Stringer, 20). ""These stories of small-town people voice the philosophy of life expressed in all his later works. Adopting a naturalistic interpretation of American life, he believed that the primal forces of human behavior are instinctive and not to be denied, as he supposed they are, by the standardization of a machine age"" (Hart, 31).… Read More

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919. First Edition, First issue. Hardcover. Octavo, 303 pages; VG-/Poor; contemporary full yellow cloth binding; spine with age toned paper label with black lettering; tattered original jacket present, with significant wear, including lacking spine, all edges tattered and chipped, soiling; mild shelf wear and soiling to binding; corners bumped; mild fading to spine; upper edge of textblock dyed yellow; newspaper clipping between pages 22/23, some toning to pages from paper; Vincent Starrett's copy, with his name on the half-title; First Issue with line 5 of page 86 reading "lay" and broken type in the word "the" in line 3 of page 251; extremely scarce with a jacket in any condition; shelved Case 2. Starrett and Anderson occupied many of the same circles, contributing to many of the same publications, including The Double Dealer, and both were in the same literary scene in Chicago.;. 1351623. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 303 pages. In Very Good minus condition, lacking dust jacket. Bound in contemporary full yellow cloth with age toned paper label bearing black lettering to spine. Covers protected with a mylar wrapper. Mild shelf wear and soiling, particularly to front board. Corners bumped. Mild fading to spine, which is slightly cocked. Upper edge of text block dyed yellow. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Anderson's flat signature laid in at front free endpaper. Pages clean. CX consignment. Shelved in Case 2. 1345447. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc, 1920. First Edition, Second Issue without publisher's light blue topstain. Cloth. Very Good. Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper, small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), blue cloth without publisher's light blue topstain, 371 pages. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the Author! Solid copy with no notes or markings by previous owners. Moderate wear and soil to cloth & edgewear. Upper right corner of cover slightly bumped causing a slight curl to about a dozen pages. Some scattered light foxing. Very faded gilt on spine. No dust jacket though protective clear mylar added. <br /> <br /> Poor White followed the success of Anderson's highly praised Winesburg, Ohio (1919), and was itself considered one of the author's better novels. Martin Seymour-Smith has called Poor White "his best novel." <br /> <br /> It relates with clear and sensitive prose the rise of a boy raised haphazardly by a drunken father; then… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's quarter green cowhead leather over brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, bright gilt motif on front cover, color frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous B&W etchings . SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. . Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise unmarked, square, tight and clean. Slipcase lightly soiled. NEAR FINE. . B&W illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (xviii), 152 pp. Signed by Illustrator .

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1978. First Thus. Number 438 of 1600 copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto (30cm). Dyed green morocco over gilt-decorated brown cloth; 152pp; illus. A fine copy, lacking the publisher's unprinted glassine overlay, in original gilt-titled slipcase which is mildly toned with a few small flecks of soil, VG+.

NY: Limited Editions, 1978. #1196 0f 1600 copies, signed and numbered by the illustrator; green 1/2 leather w/brown boards, gilt titles; 152 clean, unmarked pagesin very good,l lghtlysunned slipcase; Club newletter laid in also. 1st. Leatherbound. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Ben F. Stahl . folio.