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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.
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.