The Cornfields

New York: The House of Russell, (1939).

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Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 8pp. Green printed wrappers. Covers very slightly soiled, but still near fine. Publisher's prospectus laid in. First separate edition of the first poem in *Mid-American Chants* (1918), with a brief biographical notice at the back. Not in *Sheehy & Lohf*, nor in Ray Lewis White's *Sherwood Anderson: Fugitive Pamphlets and Broadsides, 1918-1940*, nor in the later "Additions to the Bibliography" of Sherwood Anderson by Charles E. Modlin, et al. *OCLC* locates only three copies: at William and Mary, Columbia, and University of Texas, Ransom Center. Rare.

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Item #64570 The Cornfields. Sherwood ANDERSON.

Sherwood Anderson
birth name: Sherwood Anderson
born: 9/13/1876
died: 3/8/1941

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Biography

Author who strongly influenced American short-story writing between World Wars I and II. His prose style, based on everyday speech and derived from the experimental writing of Gertrude Stein, was markedly influential on Ernest Hemingway. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Anderson's most desirable book is Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life, (1919) which is a rare and valuable book in its easily soiled, printed white jacket. Curiously, we once handled a copy that another dealer had sent out to have cleaned, and the paper restorer who cleaned it managed to wash all the printing off of the clay-coat jacket. Apparently the original printer of the jacket hadn't used a fixative on the ink, and the ink was, in effect, still "wet." Needless to say, it didn't much help the value of the book. Most of Anderson's other books of the period do occasionally show up in jacket, with his first book Windy MacPherson's Son (1916) and Dark Laughter (1925) probably among the more desirable.

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