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.