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Anderson, Sherwood.. Mid-American Chants.. John Lane Company, New York, 1918.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good in ribbed pale goldenrod cloth stamped in gilt at spine and on green panel on front cover. Lacking the dustwrapper. Scattered light foxing, more on prelims, top edge quite dusty, erasure from top of front pastedown. 82pp. Poems, rather like those of Dreiser, Lindsay and Sandburg. Q14144

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood.. Mid-American Chants.. John Lane Company, 1918.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good copy with foxing to the boards and preliminary pages with toning to the spine lacking the dust jacket. MID-AMERICAN CHANTS is Sherwood Anderson's first and only book of poems. Undeniably influenced by Walt Whitman, Anderson seeks in this collection to sing of the "heart" (geographically) of the United States, and to sing of the rising age of industrialism. The lines are long, and the rhythms almost prosaic almost prototypical American prose poems.

Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.

ANDERSON, Sherwood.. Mid-American Chants.. John Lane Company, New York, 1918.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 82 pp. 8vo, publisher's gold cloth stamped in green, in dust jacket. First edition. Very very slight soiling at extremities of cloth, otherwise a fine copy in jacket with a very attractive front panel and some significant chips to the top of the spine and back panel, and the bottom of the back panel; minor edge wear and soiling.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. MID-AMERICAN CHANTS. John Lane Company, First Edition, 1918.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Hardcover in bright yellow pictorial cloth; in dust jacket. First edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in near fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. This is Anderson's third published collection; his highly regarded first collection of verse. 8vo. 82 pp. In protective Mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. Mid-American Chants. John Lane Company, 1918.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The volume is gently pushed at the spine ends and the pages are lightly toned. The dust jacket has a toned spine, light soiling, and edge wear to include wrinkling, closed tears on the folds and joints, and chips. The jacket, protected in a sleeve, has some reinforcing tape on the verso.

Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. Mid American Chants. John Lane, New York, 1918.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The first edition of this poetry collection from Anderson, published by John Lane Company in 1918. A near fine example of the book with just faint spotting to the top edge.A very good copy of the dust jacket with chipping to extremities. There is a section of paper loss to the lower corner of the front jacket panel one half inch wide, and one and a quarter inch high. Uncommon in dust jacket.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

ANDERSON, Sherwood. Mid-American Chants. John Lane, New York, 1918.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Boards a trifle soiled else fine in a good only dustwrapper with overall age-toning, several small chips and tears, and the rear panel detached at the joint and flap fold. The author's third book, and his very important first book of poetry. Anderson's poems, long overshadowed by his short stories, evolved directly from the tradition of Walt Whitman. Rare in dustwrapper.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. MID-AMERICAN CHANTS [Signed]. John Lane Company, New York, 1918.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 82 pages. In Very Good condition, lacking dust jacket. Bound in yellow cloth with dull gilt titling to spine. Some rubbing and soiling to boards. Text block shows some foxing throughout. Inscribed by Anderson "with my most sincere regards" in Columbia, GA, Feb 1 1930. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. Anderson's third book and his first book of poetry. 1346431. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. MID-AMERICAN CHANTS. John Lane, 1918.

Price: US$913.68 + shipping

Description: MID-AMERICAN CHANTS, John Lane, 1918, first edition, a fine copy housed in a custom slip-case. INSCRIBED by the author to one of his friends. A choice copy of this, his 3rd book.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

ANDERSON, Sherwood. MID-AMERICAN CHANTS. John Lane, New York & London, 1918.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: Anderson's third book and first book of poetry, this copy a superb Association copy INSCRIBED simply "Miss Marietta Finley" and SIGNED "Sherwood Anderson" in green ink on the front endpaper. Anderson met unmarried, 24-year old "Babs" Finley at the Art. Institute of Chicago in the autumn of 1914. They were devoted friends and likely lovers. His correspondence of over 300 letters to her was published in the book LETTERS TO BAB: SHERWOOD ANDERSON TO MARIETTA D. FINLEY, 1916-33. Only two letters from her apparently have survived, but it seems that Finley had hoped, early on, for marriage but settled for a friendship that sometimes bordered on abusive. "The world has pretty muddy feet Bab," Anderson wrote to her in 1930. "It doesn't leave a man's house very nice." Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.