[Rarebooks] FS: Signed First Edition of WINESBURG, OHIO

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 exceptional books from our new Spring Catalog recently posted 
on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
Also included are a bevy of Signed Presidential books (J. Q. Adams, Van 
Buren, Buchanan, Fillmore, Cleveland, Taft, McKinley, Wilson, both 
Roosevelts, Eisenhower family copies, Kennedy, etc.), wonderful letters 
by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Virginia Woolf, a signed copy of ON THE 
ROAD, a McKenney and Hall INDIAN TRIBES folio volume, a 1609 
hand-colored herbal, a 1621 edition of Agricola's DE RE METALLICA with 
wonderful woodcuts, early baseball and aviation, scarce signed modern 
first editions, and more.

ANDERSON,  Sherwood.  WINESBURG, OHIO. New York: B. W.  Huebsch  1919.
First  Edition. Anderson's third and best known book, one of the  most
important  books  of American fiction of the twentieth  century,  this
copy  with all first issue points: map on front pastedown; title  page
frame  unbroken;  "lay" for "lie" on page 86, line 5; and broken  type
on  page  251,  line 3; top edge stained yellow  matching  the  cloth.
SIGNED  by  the  author on the half-title page just  below  the  title
"Winesburg,  Ohio."  Small leather bookplate on upper left  corner  of
the  front pastedown with slight offsetting to the front endpaper. The
yellow  cloth  is lightly soiled, more so to the spine which is sunned
as  well.  The  white  paper spine label is intact,  though  a  little
wrinkled  and soiled. Contents are tight and clean. Housed in a  plain
black  cloth  slipcase.  Lacks  the rare dustwrapper.  Very  Good  and
scarce when signed.                                           $8500.00


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