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Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper, small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), blue cloth without publisher's light blue topstain, 371 pages. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the Author! Solid copy with no notes or markings by previous owners. Moderate wear and soil to cloth & edgewear. Upper right corner of cover slightly bumped causing a slight curl to about a dozen pages. Some scattered light foxing. Very faded gilt on spine. No dust jacket though protective clear mylar added. Poor White followed the success of Anderson's highly praised Winesburg, Ohio (1919), and was itself considered one of the author's better novels. Martin Seymour-Smith has called Poor White "his best novel." It relates with clear and sensitive prose the rise of a boy raised haphazardly by a drunken father; then transplanted to the care of a New England-bred second "mother" in a poor town on the mudflats of the western Missori shoreline of the Mississippi River. Anderson has a nuanced quasi-autobiographical view overlapping--among others-- Mark Twain's as the protagonist gradually manages to get some education, self mastery, and rise as an inventor. First Edition, Second Issue without publisher's light blue topstain.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941). Poor White. B W Huebsch, Inc, New York, 1920.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 371 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title, blind-stamped colophon on front board, light aqua stain on top page edges in original jacket. Signed by the author. First edition, first printing. Poor White belongs among the few books that have restored with memorable vitality the life of an era, its hopes and desires, its conflicts between material prosperity and ethics, and its disillusionments, in a manner that stimulates the historical imagination . No novel of the American small town in the Middle West evokes in the minds of its readers so much of the cultural heritage of its milieu as does Poor White; nor does Anderson in his later novels ever recapture the same richness of association, the ability to make memorable each scene in the transition from an agrarian way of living to a twentieth-century spectacle of industrial conflict with its outward display of physical comfort and wealth. Condition: Signed on half title. Spine head chipped, corners and front heal edge bumped, spine sunned and dulled, edges sunned. Jacket spine ends and corners chipped, some edge chips with closed tears, spine age tone else a good copy in a very good scarce jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.