[Rarebooks] FS: First Issue of Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO, Signed

[Charles Agvent]

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, moreso 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. 		$8,500.00

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