Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Anderson, Sherwood. Nearer the Grass Roots. Westgate Press, San Francisco, 1929.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Bound in cloth backed boards. Cloth edge-worn and frayed; a few small blemishes to the text.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Nearer the Grass Roots. Westgate Press, San Francisco, 1929.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light discoloration to edges of boards. Signed by Anderson. Numbered edition of 500. This is number 336.; 8vo ; 37 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$83.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED in full by author Sherwood Anderson in black ink on half-title page, as called for. SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION: Number 401 of 500 copies, each copy signed. Typography by the Grabhorn Press. Woodcuts by John Ira Gannon. This is the second book in the Westgate series of limited signed first editions of modern authors. Also includes "Elizabethton: An Account of a Journey". Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), American novelist and short story writer. His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. Writers he has influenced include Hemingway, Faulkner, & Steinbeck, among others. Bound in publisher's original green boards, backed by black cloth spine with printed paper title label. A nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. No dustjacket issued. 35pp. Scarce signed copy. RARE.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Copy #402. Signed by Sherwood Anderson. Woodcuts by John Ira Gannon. Very Good condition in a clear wrapper. Minor soiling to cloth and minor wear to the pape r label on spine. Otherwise, a very nice copy.
Seller: A Book By Its Cover, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Nearer the Grass Roots. The Westgate Press, 1929.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 79 of 500 signed on half-title page and numbered on limitation page. First Printing. No jacket as issued. Woodcuts by John Ira Gannon. Two essays by the celebrated author. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Sherwood Anderson. Nearer the Grass Roots. The Westgate Press, 1929.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 279 of 500 signed on half-title page and numbered on limitation page. First Printing. Custom slipcase. No jacket as issued. Woodcuts by John Ira Gannon. Two essays by the celebrated author. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition of Nearer The Grass Roots by Sherwood Anderson, from the personal library of Frank Sinatra. Octavo, [37pp], [6 blank]. Green boards, black cloth spine with title printed on spine. Typography by the Grabhorn Press. Small residue stain on front cover. Lacking slipcase. From a limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 32, signed by the author on the half title. Includes the auction tags from the estate sale of Frank Sinatra. Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) was an actor, singer, producer and political supporter. He is considered by many to be the "greatest singer of the 20th Century." In 2018, Sotheby's auctioned off part of the estate of Frank Sinatra's wife, Barbara Sinatra. This collection included numerous pieces from their homes in Los Angeles, Malibu and Palm Springs.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$247.50 + shipping
Description: Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 221. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards, gilt-lettered spine in contemporary paper covered slipcase (not called for in Sheehy & Lohf); [4],34pp.; two-toned woodcuts by Gannon throughout. Tiny split to spine crown cloth, gilt rather dulled, some light foxing and discrete glue residue to endpapers, slipcase faded at extremities, else a Very Good and sound copy. Signed by the author on half title. SHEEHY & LOHF 47.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.