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Poor White
de ANDERSON, Sherwood
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Good-
- Librería
-
Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-. Octavo, 371pp. Either first or second issue, as we are unable to determine on this worn copy whether there is a faint blue topstain or not, due to dust-soiling. Regardless, a first printing with no subsequent printings stated on the copyright page. A somewhat shaken copy, in good condition at best in the publisher's blue cloth. General wear to extremities, with a few stains to the boards, and lacking the dust jacket. Rear free endpaper mostly torn out. Nevertheless a wonderful example, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Anderson to his first wife, Cornelia. It was during his marriage to Cornelia (who mothered all three of his children) that Anderson experienced his infamous "nervous breakdown," and after which he had trouble maintaining a steady family and working life. Despite this, all of his writing and fame came after this moment, and it was clearly a pivotal event in his writing life. This copy emerged (many years ago) from the estate of Mimi Anderson, daughter of Sherwood and Cornelia, then though the book trade. Though wanting in terms of condition, nevertheless an important copy of one of Anderson's best books, and evidence of his continued affection for Cornelia several years after their divorce. It shouuld be noted that signed first printings are also uncommon in the trade, regardless of any association.
Sinopsis
From the book:Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back from the town - called in derision by river men "Mudcat Landing" - was almost entirely worthless and unproductive. The soil, yellow, shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh's time, by a race of long gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land on which they lived. They were chronically dis-couraged, and the merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state. The merchants, who ran their stores - poor tumble-down ramshackle affairs - on the credit system, could not get pay for the goods they handed out over their counters and the artisans, the shoemakers, carpenters and harnessmakers, could not get pay for the work they did. Only the town's two saloons prospered. The saloon keepers sold their wares for cash and, as the men of the town and the farmers who drove into town felt that without drink life was unbearable, cash always could be found for the purpose of getting drunk.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 8308
- Título
- Poor White
- Autor
- ANDERSON, Sherwood
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good-
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- B. W. Huebsch
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1920
- Palabras clave
- Ohio literature, Winesburg, Ohio, Modernism, Modernist literature
Términos de venta
Cleveland Book Company
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Sobre el vendedor
Cleveland Book Company
Miembro de Biblio desde 2017
Rocky River, Ohio
Sobre Cleveland Book Company
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Copyright page
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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