Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$43.80 + shipping
Description: Faithful facsimile of the first edition. Crease to about first 40 pages; slight foxing to bulked fore-edges of text. Near FIne in a Fine dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Flexible dark green leather covers with bright gilt publishers device on cover and titling to spine. Small book is tight, square, relatively sharp cornered and free of major flaws and markings inside and out, other than mild scuffing to top of spine and a bit to corners and edges. Decorated endpapers. W. Huebsch, 1919 on copyright page. No titles at rear. 303 pp.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. Huebsch, New York, 1919.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book has been rebacked but still has original covers. All first edition points present ( Lay for lie, broken type and top edge stained yellow. Map on front pastedown present.
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light spotting to preliminaries, otherwise very good in a new facsimile binding with facsimile dust jacket and slipcase. sm8vo. 303 pp. Rebound in a facsimile binding, includes slipcase. 1st edition, second state with corrections and broken border on title page.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1919 true 1st edition, 1st issue, with the required issue points, including "lay" for "lie" on pg. 86, line 5. A solid copy to boot. Tight and VG in its mustard cloth, with a complete (but lightly rubbed and soiled) paper spine label. Light soiling (and just a touch of very mild staining) to the panels, otherwise very presentable. Internally very sharp as well, with no writing or markings of any kind. Sherwood Anderson's dark, troubling view of the early 20th century's small town, Midwestern character.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue with "lay" for "lie" on page 86, line 5; broken type of the word "the" on page 251 line 3, unbroken title page rule. ix, 303pp. Original yellow cloth with paper spine label, yellow top stain; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with binding slightly askew, spine lightly faded and worn at the edges and title label, cloth lightly soiled. Former owner name to front free endpaper and pages tanned. The first appearance of the acclaimed collection of modernist short stories centered around a small Ohio town.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing (or Issue) with points. A solid Very Good or Better copy in goldenrod cloth, spine label, lacking the very scarce dustwrapper. Slightly cocked. Offsetting to board hinges. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Label bright and clean. 303pp. No writing or soil or other problems. A genuine classic of American literature, and a holy grail among modernist collectible titles. Presented in a facsimile dustwrapper and custom slipcase. Q16464
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A little soiling on the boards and printed paper spine label, else near fine in smudged and professionally restored (mostly strengthening at the flap folds) good only dust jacket. A group of related short stories which together form a portrait of small-town America. A Johnson *Highspot of American Literature*, this was Anderson's first major success and had a considerable influence on American literature. A very nice copy of a book that is notoriously rare in jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ANDERSON Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. , 1919.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Description: 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). Approaching his characters in these stories, Anderson aims to peel away "other people's attitudes to reveal the complexity and potential of the man beneath" (Parker & Kermode, 79). The book was a major influence on Hemingway, Faulkner and Wolfe, and led critic Carl Van Doren to note, "Anderson, who is a poet at heart, is profoundly devoted to the idea that life to be truly good must be mobile and creative, not fixed and obedient." First issue, with unbroken right frame line of title page; "lay" at page 86, line five; broken type in "the" at page 251, line three. Without very rare original dust jacket. Sheehy & Lohf 9. Bruccoli & Clark II:14. Dickinson, 14. Text generally fine, bright cloth with only mild soiling, toning and a bit of wear to paper spine label. Very desirable inscribed.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.