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ANDERSON, Sherwood. THE MODERN WRITER. The Lantern Press, San Francisco, 1925.

Price: US$43.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Black paper-covered boards titled in gilt, cloth spine. 44,[4] pp. No. 289 of 950 copies printed for The Lantern Press (Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.) by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn numbered from 51 to 1000, and fifty on Japan Vellum, numbered from 1 to 50. Title page printed in black with woodcut printed in red. Very good, without the black cloth slipcase. Anderson was best known for his 1919 novel WINESBURG, OHIO, and due to his portrait of American life in that novel he is called upon here to argue the role of the modern writer in America and beyond.

Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Sherwood Anderson. The Modern Writer. Lantern Press, San Francisco, 1925.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First, Limited Edition. Black paper-covered boards titled in gilt. 44 pp. No. 530 of 950 copies printed for The Lantern Press (Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.) by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn numbered from 51 to 1000. Title page printed in black with woodcut printed in red. No slipcase. Original owner's signature inside cover and on title page and there is some underling and margin marks in same green ink signature.

Seller: 20th Century Lost & Found, La Grande, OR, U.S.A.

Sherwood Anderson. The Modern Writer. The Lantern Press, Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1925.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Number 247 of 950 numbered copies. First Printing. Library bound, retains original front board, lacking back. Owner's signature on front endpaper. From the William Ripley Collection.

Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood.. The Modern Writer.. San Francisco: Lantern Press., 1925.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. 44 pp., Soft Covers, Very Good+, with Illustrated cover and title page. Inside pamphlet binder. Reprint of original.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. The Modern Writer. San Francisco: Lantern Press, 1925, 1925.

Price: US$54.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. One of 950 numbered copies in black paper boards. Spine is in rough shape, text block is fine. A good candidate for rebinding.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Sherwood Anderson. The Modern Writer. The Lantern Press, San Francisco, 1925.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First publication of this important 44-page work in pamphlet form from a small San Francisco Press, now defunct, by the author of WINESBURG, OHIO. in which he argues for the writer's role in social justice. One of 1,000 copies issued. A clean, unmarked copy, nearly pristine in its Mylar sleeve with archival stiff backing.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. The Modern Writer. The Lantern Press, San Francisco, CA, 1925.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 44 pages, 8vo. No DJ. Limited Edition of 1000 copies printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. This is copy no.509. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover. Shelfwear: spine is completely detached, light scuffing along edges and cover boards, light tanning along page edges. No marks. Volume is in Good condition.

Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood. The Modern Writer. The Lantern Press, San Fransisco, 1925.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 1,000 copies in the first printing of this limited edition; this is copy number 287. Published in 1925 by the Lantern Press. Bound in publisher's black boards. A very good copy with some wear to tips and chipping and wear along the spine.

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

Anderson, Sherwood.. The Modern Writer.. The Lantern Press, 1925.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good copy in black cloth binding missing a half inch of the lower backstrip. This is one of 950 numbered copies issued. This forty-four page volume contains Anderson's views on the role of the writer in a time of great social change and at a time of when modernism dominated the shifting literary landscape.

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

ANDERSON, Sherwood.. Modern Writer.. The Lantern Press, San Francisco, 1925.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: 45 pp. 8vo, publisher's black boards. First edition. No. 440 of 1000 copies. About fine.

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

Sherwood Anderson. The Modern Writer. The Lantern Press, Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1925.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 734 of 950 numbered copies. First Printing. Includes signed letter on Grabhorn Press letterhead from Edwin Grabhorn to the purchaser, dated April 20, 1931, as well as an insert advertising "The Book of Job." Missing two inches of paper on spine, tanning on front end papers from documents. From the William Ripley Collection.

Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

Anderson, Sherwood.. The Modern Writer.. Lantern Press, 1925.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good copy in black paper boards with wear to extremities and spine. This is one of a 1000 numbered copies issued without dust jacket. Printed for the Lantern Press by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. This forty-four page volume contains Anderson's views on the role of the writer in a time of great social change and at a time of when modernism dominated the shifting literary landscape.

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

Anderson, Sherwood. THE MODERN WRITER. The Lantern Press, 1925.

Price: US$174.00 + shipping

Description: THE MODERN WRITER, The Lantern Press, 1925, first edition, wear to the spine edges and just a bit to the corner tips, else a vg copy of the regular trade edition in paper boards. 1/1,000 copies, this one specially SIGNED by the author although uncalled for.

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

Anderson, Sherwood. The Modern Writer. The Lantern Press, San Francisco, 1925.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Number 308 of 1000 copies. With a folding cloth case and morocco backed slipcase, just slightly darkened at top.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD.. The Modern Writer. San Francisco: The Lantern Press, 1925, 1925.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition; one of 50 copies on Japan vellum signed by Anderson. Printed at the Grabhorn Press; fine in a lightly worn publisher's slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.