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); A man of ideas; Adventure; Respectability; The thinker; Tandy; The strength of God; The teacher; Loneliness; An awakening; “Queer”; The untold lie; Drink; Death; Sophistication; Departure.

10. First English edition:

London, Jonathan Cape, 1922. 303p.

[Illustration: Title page from the first issue of _Winesburg, Ohio_.

Item 9]

11. Reprints:

New York, Modern Library [1919] xv, 303p. Introduction, Ernest Boyd.

Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius company [1925] 63p. (Little Blue Book, no. 865) A selection entitled _Hands, and other stories_. Contents: Hands; Paper pills; Mother; The philosopher; Nobody knows; A man of ideas; Adventure.

Harmondsworth, England, Penguin Books, 1948. 224p.

New York, New American Library [1956] 159p. (Signet Books 1304)

New York, Viking Press [1958] 303p. (Compass Books Edition. C39)

12. Translations:

_An Tê Shên Hsüan Chi._ Taepei, Hsinlu Book Company, 1958. 147p.

_Mestečko v Ohiu._ Prague, SNKLHU, 1958. 212p. Tr. Eva Kondrysová.

_Winesburg, Ohio. En amerikansk Provinsbys Menneskeskaebner._ Copenhagen, Funkis Förlag, 1934. 264p. Tr., Elias Bredsdorff.

_En by i Ohio._ Copenhagen. Reitzel, 1959. 144p. Tr., Henrik Larsen.

_Pikkukaupunki._ Helsinki, Werner Söderström, 1955. 204p. Tr., Leena-Maija Reunanen.

_Winesburg-en-Ohio._ Paris, Gallimard, 1927. 253p. Tr., Marguerite Gay.

_Winesburg, Ohio._ Berlin and Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1958. 193p. Tr., Hans Erich Nossack.

_Solitudine: Winesburg, Ohio._ Turin, Slavia, 1931. 304p. Tr., Ada Prospero.

_Piccola città nell’ Ohio._ Rome, Polin [194-] 221p. Tr., Orsola Nemi.

_Racconti dell’ Ohio._ Turin, Einaudi, 1950. 263p. Tr., Giuseppe Trevisani.

_Miasteczko Winesburg. Obrazki z zycia w stanie Ohio._ Warsaw, Czytelnik, 1958. 280p. Tr., Jerzy Krzyszton.

_A secreta mentira._ Pôrto Alegre, Globo, 1950. xvi, 258p. Tr., James Amado and Moacir Werneck de Castro.

_A cidade dos estranhos._ Lisbon, Livros do Brasil, 1951. 232p. Tr., James Amado and Moacir Werneck de Castro.

_O livro dos grotescos._ Rio de Janeiro, Revista Branca, 1952. 248p. Tr., Constantino Paleólogo.

_Uinsberg Okhaio._ Moscow, Gosudarstvennoye Izdatelstvo, 1924. 224p. Tr., S. D. Matveyev.

_Uainsburg, Ogaio._ Moscow and Leningrad, L. D. Frenkel, 1924. 248p. Tr., P. Okhrimenko. Foreword, M. Levidov.

_Uainsburg, Ogaio._ Moscow and Leningrad, Zemlya i Fabrika, 1925. 360p. Tr., P. Okhrimenko.

_Winesburgo, Ohio._ Madrid, Zeus, 1932. 263p. Tr., Armando Ros. Preface, Ernest Boyd.

_Las novelas de lo grotesco._ Buenos Aires, S. Rueda [1942] iv, 303p. Tr., Armando Ros. Preface, Max Dickman.

_Winesburgo, Ohio. La novela de lo grotesco._ Madrid, Aguilar, 1949. Tr., Armando Ros. Preface Germán Gómez de la Mata.

_Den lilla staden._ Stockholm, C. E. Fritze, 1951. 297p. Tr., Olov Jonason.

_Varošica Vajnsberg u državi Ohajo_, Belgrade Novo Pokolenje, 1954. 307p. Tr., Slobodan A. Jovanović.

_POOR WHITE. 1920_

13. POOR WHITE | A NOVEL BY | SHERWOOD | ANDERSON | AUTHOR OF | WINESBURG, OHIO | [publishers’ device] | NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH, Inc. MCMXX [title surrounded by a single line border]

[vi] 371p. 19½ × 13 cm. Blue cloth stamped in yellow on spine and publishers’ device blind-stamped on cover. Some copies top edge stained blue.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Tennessee Mitchell Anderson.

14. First English edition:

London, Jonathan Cape, 1921. 315p.

15. Reprint:

New York, Modern Library [1926] viii, 371p. With an introduction by Anderson.

16. Translations:

_Arme blanke._ The Hague, H. P. Leopold, 1928. 284p. Tr., H. J. Smeding.

_Der arme Weise._ Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1925. 299p. Tr., Karl Lerbs.

_I istoria tou Hugh MacVay._ Athens, Atlantis, 1958. 240p. Tr., B. Kalantzi.

_A nagy ember._ Budapest, Révai, 1934. 279p. Tr., Lili Doberhoff.

_Un povero bianco._ Verona, Mondadori, 1959. 305p. Tr., Luisella Quilico.

_Pobre blanco._ Barcelona, Gráfica Moderna, 1929. 258p. Tr., Julio Calvo Alfaro. Preface, Angel Flores.

_Mannen från västern._ Stockholm, Tiden, 1928. 340p. Tr., Stina Dahlberg.

_THE TRIUMPH OF THE EGG. 1921_

17. THE TRIUMPH OF THE EGG | A BOOK OF IMPRESSIONS | FROM AMERICAN LIFE | IN TALES AND POEMS | BY | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | IN CLAY BY | TENNESSEE MITCHELL | [publishers’ device] | (quotation, six lines, from “Mid-American Chants”) | PHOTOGRAPHS BY EUGENE HUTCHINSON | NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH, INC. MCMXXI

[xii] 269p. 20½ × 14 cm. Dark green cloth lettered in yellow on spine and cover; design blind-stamped on cover. First issue has top edge stained yellow.

“Impressions in clay by Tennessee Mitchell” appears on eight unnumbered leaves following p.[viii]

A poem, beginning “Tales are people who sit on the doorstep,” appears on p.[i], the page preceding the half-title.

_Dedication_ (p.[vii]): To Robert and John Anderson.

Contents: The dumb man; I want to know why; Seeds; The other woman; The egg; Unlighted lamps; Senility; The man in the brown coat; Brothers; The door of the trap; The New Englander; War; Motherhood; Out of nowhere into nothing; The man with the trumpet.

18. First English edition:

London, Jonathan Cape, 1922. xi, 269p.

19. Reprint:

Tokyo, Kairyudo [1958?] 2 volumes: 147, 167p. Edited and annotated by Kichinosuke Ohashi. (Kairyudo’s Mentor Library, no. 10)

20. Translations:

_Un païen de l’Ohio._ Nouvelles tirées de _The triumph of the egg_ et de _Horses and men_. Paris, Rieder, 1927. 218p. Tr., Marguerite Gay. Preface, Eugène Jolas.

_Das Ei triumphiert; Novellen._ Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1926. 263p. Tr., Karl Lerbs.

_Aus dem Nirgends ins Nichts._ Leipzig, Insel-Verlag [1927] 77p. Tr., Karl Lerbs. A translation of the story “Out of nowhere into nothing.”

_I racconti son uomini._ Rome, Editrice Cultura Moderna [1945] 160p. Tr., Guglielmo Santangelo. A selected edition of five stories.

_Onna ni natta otoka; Tamago._ Tokyo, Eihô-sha, 1956. 194p. Tr., Rikuo Taniguchi and Yoshizô Miyazaki. A translation of the story “The egg.”

_Torzhestvo yaitsa._ Moscow, Sovremennyie Problemy, 1925. 257p. Tr., P. Okhrimenko.

_Yaitso._ Moscow, Biblioteka Zhurnala “Ogonyok”, 1926. 63p. Tr., P. Okhrimenko. A translation of the story “The egg.”

_HORSES AND MEN. 1923_

21. HORSES AND MEN | Tales, long and short, from | our American life | BY | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [publishers’ device] | NEW YORK | B. W. HUEBSCH, INC. | MCMXXIII

[xiv] 347p. 19½ × 13 cm. Orange cloth with white paper label on spine and publishers’ device blind-stamped on cover. Top edge stained orange.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Theodore Dreiser.

Contents: Foreword; Dreiser; I’m a fool; The triumph of a modern; “Unused”; A Chicago Hamlet; The man who became a woman; Milk bottles; The sad horn blowers; The man’s story; An Ohio pagan.

22. First English edition:

London, Jonathan Cape, 1924. xiii, 347p.

23. Reprints:

London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. 221p. (Travellers’ Library)

New York, Peter Smith, 1933. 222p. (Travellers’ Library)

24. Translations:

_L’Homme qui devint femme._ Trois nouvelles tirées de _Horses and men_. Paris, Émile-Paul, 1926. 190p. Tr., Bernard Fay and Jean Rivière. Preface, Bernard Fay.

_Un païen de l’ Ohio._ Nouvelles tirées de _The Triumph of the egg_ et de _Horses and men_. Paris, Rieder, 1927. 218p. Tr., Marguerite Gay. Preface, Eugène Jolas.

_L’Uomo che diventò donna._ Milan, Longanesi, 1949. 314p. Tr., G. Baldini.

_Onna ni natta otoko; Tamago._ Tokyo, Eihô-sha, 1956. 194p. Tr., Rikuo Taniguchi and Yoshizô Miyazaki. A translation of the story “The man who became a woman.”

_Koni i lyudi._ Leningrad and Moscow, Petrograd, 1926. 249p. Tr., M. Volosov.

_Loshadi i lyudi._ Moscow and Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoye Izdatelstvo, 1927. 250p. Tr., M. Kovalenskaya.

_MANY MARRIAGES. 1923_

25. SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [single line] | MANY MARRIAGES | [publishers’ device] | NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH, INC. MCMXXIII [title surrounded by a single line border]

[x] 264p. 19½ × 13 cm. Blue cloth stamped in orange on cover and spine. Top edge stained orange.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Paul Rosenfeld.

A Foreword and an Explanation by Anderson appear on p.[vii-viii] and p.[ix], respectively.

26. Reprint:

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. 264p.

27. Translations:

_Mange Aegteskaber._ Copenhagen, Gyldendal, 1946. 218p. Tr., Ole Sarvig.

_Molti matrimoni; romanzo._ Milan, Mondadori, 1945. 267p. Tr., Luigi Giovanola. Reprinted: 1958.

_AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY ALFRED H. MAURER. 1924_

28. AN EXHIBITION OF | PAINTINGS | BY | ALFRED H. MAURER | BEGINNING | JANUARY FIFTEENTH | -1924- | E. WEYHE | 794 LEXINGTON AVENUE | (Bet. 61st and 62nd Sts.) | NEW YORK

Single folded leaf, [4]p. 14 × 9 cm.

Anderson’s essay on Alfred H. Maurer is untitled and appears on p.[2-3]

Copy in the New York Public Library.

_A STORY TELLER’S STORY. 1924_

29. A Story Teller’s Story | The tale of an American writer’s journey | through his own imaginative world and | through the world of facts, with many of | his experiences and impressions among other | writers—told in many notes—in four books | —and an Epilogue. | Sherwood Anderson | [publishers’ device] | New York B. W. Huebsch, Inc. Mcmxxiv [title surrounded by a double line border]

[vi] 442p. 21 × 14 cm. Brown cloth stamped in yellow on cover and spine.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Alfred Stieglitz.

30. First English edition:

London, Jonathan Cape, 1925. 442p.

31. Reprints:

Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Company [1928] 442p.

New York, Grove Press [1958] 442p. (Evergreen Books, E-109)

32. Translations:

_Un conteur se raconte._ In two volumes: I. _Mon père et moi_; II. _Je suis un homme._ Paris, Editions Kra, 1928-1929. 209, 151p. Tr., Victor Llona. (Collection européenne)

_Der Erzähler erzählt sein Leben._ Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1927. 438p. Tr., Karl Lerbs.

_Storia di me e dei miei racconti._ Turin, Einaudi, 1947. xix, 338p. Tr., Fernanda Pivano.

_Istoriya rasskazchika._ Moscow, Gos. izd-vo khudozh. lit-ry, 1935. 318p. Tr., E. Romanova. Introduction, S. Dinamov.

_Rasskazy._ Leningrad, Gos. izd-vo khudozh. lit-ry, 1959. 506p. Tr., D. M. Gorfinkel.

_Sherwood Anderson y yo._ Buenos Aires, Santiago Rueda, 1943. 385p. Tr., Luis Echávarri.

_DARK LAUGHTER. 1925_

33. [Type ornament rule] | DARK | LAUGHTER | [single line] | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [single line and publishers’ device] | NEW YORK MCMXXV | BONI & LIVERIGHT | [type ornament rule] [title printed in black and blue]

319p. 19½ × 13½ cm. Black cloth stamped in yellow on cover and spine. Decorated endpapers. Also 350 numbered and signed copies, and 20 lettered and signed copies.

_Dedication_ (p.[5]): Dedicated to Jane W. Prall.

34. First English edition:

London, Jarrolds, 1926. 288p.

35. Reprints:

Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1926. 263p. (Collection of British and American Authors, vol. 4756)

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. 319p.

Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1942. 319p.

36. Translations:

_Mørk latter._ Copenhagen, Gyldendal, 1945. 222p. Tr., Per Lange.

_Riso nero._ Turin, Frassinelli, 1932. vi, 253p. Tr., Cesare Pavese.

_Yoru no aibiki._ Tokyo, Kadokawa shoten, 1953. 309p. Tr., Yoshihide Iijima.

_Mørk latter._ Oslo, Jorgensensboktr., 1929. 267p. Tr., Hans Heiberg.

_Mørk latter._ Oslo, Reistad. 1940. 221p. Tr., Hans Heiberg.

_La risa negra._ Madrid, Zeus, 1931. 244p. Tr., Augusto Centeno.

_La risa negra._ Buenos Aires, Futuro, 1944. 244p. Tr., Augusto Centeno.

_Mörkt skratt._ Stockholm, Bonnier, 1928. 286p. Tr., Elsa af Trolle. Preface, Anders Osterling.

_THE MODERN WRITER. 1925_

37. THE MODERN | WRITER | BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [woodcut in red] | SAN FRANCISCO MCMXXV | THE LANTERN PRESS | GELBER, LILIENTHAL, INC.

[iv] 44p. 21½ × 14 cm. Black paper over boards stamped in gold on cover.

_Colophon_ (p.[45]): One thousand copies of this book have been printed for The Lantern Press, San Francisco, (Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc.) by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. Nine hundred & fifty copies are on B. R. Book Paper, numbered from 51 to 1000, and fifty on Japan Vellum, numbered from 1 to 50.

_SHERWOOD ANDERSON’S NOTEBOOK. 1926_

38. Sherwood | Anderson’s | NOTEBOOK | [panel line] | Containing Articles Written During | the Author’s Life as a Story Teller, | and Notes of his Impressions from | Life [vignette] scattered through the Book | [publishers’ device and panel line] | NEW YORK MCMXXVI | BONI & LIVERIGHT [title surrounded by a triple line border of which the outer line is a decorated rule]

230p. 21½ × 14½ cm. Blue decorated paper over boards; purple cloth spine stamped in gold. Also 225 large paper copies numbered and signed.

_Dedication_ (p.[7]): Dedicated to two friends, M. D. F. and Emerson.

Contents: From Chicago; Four American impressions (Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis); Notes out of a man’s life (Notes 1-5); A note on realism; After seeing George Bellows’ Mr. and Mrs. Wase; I’ll say we’ve done well; A meeting South; Notes out of a man’s life (Notes 6-10); Notes on standardization; Alfred Stieglitz; Notes out of a man’s life (Notes 11-16); When the writer talks; Notes out of a man’s life (Notes 17-22); An apology for crudity; King Coal; Notes out of a man’s life (Notes 23-29).

_TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD. 1926_

39. TAR | A | Midwest Childhood | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [publishers’ device] | NEW YORK | BONI AND LIVERIGHT | 1926 [first three lines enclosed within a blue decorated border; title surrounded by a single line border]

xviii, 346p. 21½ × 14½ cm. Brown cloth stamped in gold and blue on cover and spine. Also 350 large paper copies numbered and signed.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Elizabeth Anderson.

A Foreword by Anderson appears on p.ix-xviii.

40. First English edition:

London, Martin Secker, 1927. xviii, 346p.

41. Reprint:

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1931. xviii, 346p.

42. Translations:

_Tar._ Paris, Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, 1931. 231p. Tr., Marguerite Gay and Paul Genty. Preface, René Lalou.

_Tar._ Budapest, Athenæum, 1934. 275p. Tr., Andor Gál.

_Tar._ Barcelona, José Janés, 1948. 295p. Tr., Mario G. Alcántara.

_A NEW TESTAMENT. 1927_

43. A New | Testament | [panel line] | Sherwood Anderson [panel line] | BONI AND LIVERIGHT | New York mcmxxvii [title, printed in black and red, is surrounded by a double line border]

118p. 18 × 11 cm. Blue cloth stamped in gold and red on cover and spine. Also 265 large paper copies numbered and signed.

_Dedication_ (p.[7]): Dedicated to Horace Liveright.

Contents: A young man; One who looked up at the sky; Testament—four songs; The man with the trumpet; Hunger; Death; The healer; Man speaking to a woman; A dreamer; Man walking alone; Testament of an old man; Half gods; Ambition; In a workingman’s rooming house; A man standing by a bridge; The red-throated black; Singing swamp negro; Thoughts of a man passed in a lonely street at night; Cities; A youth speaking slowly; One who sought knowledge; The minister of God; A persistent lover; The visit in the morning—; The dumb man; A poet; A man resting from labor; A stoic lover; A young Jew; The story teller; A thinker; The man in the brown coat; One puzzled concerning himself; The dreamer; A vagrant; Young man in a room; Negro on the docks at Mobile, Ala.; Word factories; Man lying on a couch; The ripper; One who would not grow old; The New Englander; The builder; Young man filled with the feeling of power; A dying poet; Brother; The lame one; Two glad men; Answering voice of a second glad man; Chicago; Challenge of the sea; Poet; At the well; An emotion; Der Tag; Another poet; A man and two women standing by a wall facing the sea.

_ALICE AND THE LOST NOVEL. 1929_

44. ALICE AND THE LOST NOVEL | by | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | being Number Ten of | The Woburn Books | [publishers’ device] | Published at London in 1929 by | ELKIN MATHEWS & MARROT [title surrounded by a double line border]

[1]-[28]p. 20½ × 15 cm. Light blue paper over boards colored in dark blue on covers. Pages uncut. Signed by the author on p.[2]

_Colophon_ (p.[2]): Five hundred and thirty numbered copies of this story have been set in Monotype Eleven Point Plantin, and printed by Robert MacLehose & Co. Ltd., at the University Press, Glasgow; Nos. 1-500 only are for sale and Nos. 501-530 for presentation.

_HELLO TOWNS! 1929_

45. HELLO TOWNS! | [decorated line] | by | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [single line] | [decorated line] | 19 [publishers’ device] 29 | [decorated line] | New York · Horace Liveright [title, single line, and publishers’ device in red]

[1]-339p. 21½ × 14½ cm. Brown cloth stamped in orange on spine and blind-stamped on cover. Top edge stained orange. In first printing, page 35, line 30, “fingers” is misspelled.

_Dedication_ (p.[5]): To my friends, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Emmett.

_Frontispiece_: “Map of Smyth County, Virginia” by Tom Ewald.

46. Translation:

_Hello town!_ Munich, Langewiesche-Brandt, 1956. 121p. Tr., Maria von Schweinitz.

_NEARER THE GRASS ROOTS. 1929_

47. NEARER THE | GRASS ROOTS | BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON | and by the same author, an account of | a journey [vignette in red] ELIZABETHTON | [woodcut] | San Francisco: The Westgate Press: 1929 | [single line]

[iv] 35p. 23 × 15 cm. Decorated green paper over boards; black cloth spine stamped in gold. Autographed by the author on the half-title page.

_Colophon_: An edition of five hundred copies. Typography by The Grabhorn Press. Wood-cuts by John Ira Gannon. Each copy signed by the author.

_THE AMERICAN COUNTY FAIR. 1930_

48. THE | AMERICAN | COUNTY | FAIR | by | Sherwood Anderson | [woodcut] | RANDOM HOUSE, NEW YORK | 1930

[ii] 13p. 21 × 14 cm. Stiff green paper covers with label on spine.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[2]): 875 copies for Random House, PJ [Paul Johnston], printed in the U. S. A. by the Southworth Press.

One of six “Prose Quartos” issued by Random House; title of the series from slip case containing the six pamphlets.

_PERHAPS WOMEN. 1931_

49. PERHAPS WOMEN | By | Sherwood Anderson | [publishers’ device] | HORACE LIVERIGHT, INC. | NEW YORK [title surrounded by a double line border and printed on a yellow background]

[1]-[144]p. 19½ × 14 cm. Blue cloth stamped in gold on cover and spine. Top edge stained yellow.

_Frontispiece_: Woodcut by Julius J. Lankes.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[4]): Copyright, 1931.

_Dedication_ (p.[5]): To Maurice Long.

An Introduction by Anderson, dated April 1931, appears on p.[7]

Contents: Machine song; Lift up thine eyes; Loom dance; It is a woman’s age; Perhaps women; Night in a mill town; Ghosts; Entering the mill at night; Perhaps women; Will America have to turn to women?; Perhaps women; The cry in the night.

_BEYOND DESIRE. 1932_

50. SHERWOOD | ANDERSON | [single line] | BEYOND | DESIRE | [single line] | [publishers’ device] | LIVERIGHT · INC. | NEW YORK [title surrounded by a red single line border]

[viii] 359p. Tan cloth stamped in red and black on cover and spine. Red endpapers. Top edge stained red. Also limited signed edition.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Manufactured ... at the Van Rees Press.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Elenore.

51. Translations:

_Hinsides alt Begaer._ Copenhagen, J. H. Schultz, 1937. 376p. Tr., Ole Restrup.

_Po tu storonu zhelaniya._ Moscow and Leningrad, Gos. izd-vo khudozh. lit-ry, 1933. 320p. Tr., P. Okhrimenko. Introduction, S. Dinamov.

_Más allá del deseo._ Buenos Aires, Editorial Sud-americana [1945] 458p. Tr., Manuel Barberá.

_DEATH IN THE WOODS. 1933_

52. DEATH IN THE | WOODS | AND OTHER STORIES | [ornament] | SHERWOOD | ANDERSON | [publishers’ device] | LIVERIGHT · INC · PUBLISHERS | NEW YORK [title surrounded by a triple line border of which the inner line is a broken line]

[viii] 298p. 21 × 14½ cm. Orange cloth stamped in black and gold on spine.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Copyright, 1933. Manufactured ... at the Van Rees Press.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To my friend Ferdinand Schevill.

Contents: Death in the woods; The return; There she is—she is taking her bath; The lost novel; The fight; Like a queen; That sophistication; In a strange town; These mountaineers; A sentimental journey; A jury case; Another wife; A meeting South; The flood; Why they got married; Brother Death.

_NO SWANK. 1934_

53. NO SWANK | [single line] | Sherwood Anderson | [single line] | [publishers’ device] | The Centaur Press | Philadelphia | 1934

[x] 130p. 19½ × 13 cm. Black cloth stamped in gold on spine. One thousand unnumbered copies of which 50 were signed by the author.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Printed and bound ... by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Laura Lou Copenhaver in appreciation.

Contents: Meeting Ring Lardner; Death on a winter day; The Dreiser; Prize fighters and authors; Mr. J. J. Lankes and his woodcuts; Two Irishmen; To George Borrow; A Stonewall Jackson man; Lincoln Steffens talks of Russia; No swank; Visit to a painter; Gertrude Stein; A man’s mind; Lawrence again; Margaret Anderson: real—unreal; Paul; To Jasper Deeter: a letter.

_PUZZLED AMERICA. 1935_

54. Puzzled America | [single line] | By | Sherwood Anderson | [decoration] | [single line] | Charles Scribner’s Sons | New York MCMXXV London

xvi, 287p. 21 × 14½ cm. Blue cloth stamped in gold on spine and cover. First printing has code letter _A_ on copyright page.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Roger Sergel.

Contents: Introduction; At the mine mouth; The price of aristocracy; People; Tough babes in the woods; Blue smoke; “I want to work”; A union meeting; New tyrants of the land; Elizabethton, Tennessee; “Please let me explain”; The nationalist; They elected him; Revolt in South Dakota; Village wassail; Night in a corn town; Olsonville; The return of the princess.

_KIT BRANDON. 1936_

55. KIT BRANDON | A PORTRAIT | [type ornament rule] | BY | SHERWOOD | ANDERSON | 1936 | [type ornament rule] | CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS · NEW YORK | CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS · LTD · LONDON

[x] 373p. 19½ × 13½ cm. Black cloth stamped in white on spine and cover. Top edge stained blue. First printing has code letter _A_ on copyright page.

_Dedication_ (p.[vii]): To Mary Pratt Emmett.

56. First English edition:

London, Hutchinson, 1937. 346p.

57. Reprint:

London, Hutchinson, 1938. 346p. (Cheap edition)

58. Translations:

_Kit Brandon._ Copenhagen, Hasselbalch, 1937. 366p. Tr., Arne Stevns.

_Kit Brandon._ Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 1947. 312p. Tr., Waldie van Eck.

_Ritratto di Kit Brandon. Romanzo._ Milan, G. Feltrinelli, 1959. 381p. Tr., Marcella Bonsanti.

_PLAYS, WINESBURG AND OTHERS. 1937_

59. PLAYS | Winesburg | and Others | By | SHERWOOD | ANDERSON | CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS | New York | CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, LTD. | London | [panel line] | 1937 [title enclosed by four crossed lines and surrounded by a double line border]

xxii, 242p. Brown cloth stamped in blue on spine.

Contents: An explanation; Note; Jasper Deeter: a dedication; Winesburg, Ohio; The triumph of the egg; Mother; They married later.

_A WRITER’S CONCEPTION OF REALISM. 1939_

60. SHERWOOD | ANDERSON | [single line] | A | WRITER’S | CONCEPTION | OF REALISM | AN ADDRESS DELIVERED | ON JANUARY 20, 1939 AT | OLIVET COLLEGE | [single line] | PUBLISHED AT OLIVET COLLEGE | OLIVET, MICHIGAN, MCMXXXIX

20p. 15 × 8½ cm. Wrappers.

_On verso of cover_ (p.2): Copyright 1939, by Sherwood Anderson.

_HOME TOWN. 1940_

61. THE FACE OF AMERICA | EDWIN ROSSKAM, EDITOR | [single line] | HOME TOWN | BY | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | PHOTOGRAPHS BY FARM SECURITY PHOTOGRAPHERS | [single line] | [publishers’ device] | ALLIANCE BOOK CORPORATION | NEW YORK

[iv] 145p. 26 × 17½ cm. Gray cloth stamped in green on cover and spine.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Copyright 1940 by Sherwood Anderson.

_SHERWOOD ANDERSON’S MEMOIRS. 1942_

62. Sherwood | Anderson’s | Memoirs | New York | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY [title surrounded by a single line border]

[x] 507p. 22 × 14½ cm. Black cloth stamped in gold on spine and cover.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Copyright, 1942 by Eleanor Anderson.

Contents: This book; Book I . What a man’s made of: The age; The family; A small town street; Through the corn; Experiments; Discovery of a father; New worlds; Ohio pagans; Horses, bicycles and men; My sister Stella; Book II . American money: Chicago; We share; Money! Money!; The capture of Caratura; I court a rich girl; The golf ball; The Italian’s garden; The man of ideas; Brother Earl;