SHERWOOD ANDERSON:
A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sherwood Anderson

Photograph by Edward Steichen, August, 1926

Sherwood Anderson
A Bibliography

COMPILED BY
EUGENE P. SHEEHY & KENNETH A. LOHF

THE TALISMAN PRESS
Los Gatos, California 1960

© 1960 by THE TALISMAN PRESS

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-53225

Contents

“Gertrude Stein contended that Sherwood Anderson had a genius for using the sentence to convey a direct emotion, this was in the great american tradition, and that really except Sherwood there was no one in America who could write a clear and passionate sentence.”

—The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Manuscript page from Winesburg, Ohio.

From the Anderson Collection in the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Binding of Windy McPherson’s Son, Anderson’s first book. [[Item 1]]

Illustrations

Preface

Although an examination of Sherwood Anderson’s biography would reveal various careers—that of laborer, manager of a paint factory, advertising writer, short story writer, novelist, poet, essayist, and newspaper editor—it is as a writer of short stories that he has made his most significant contribution to American letters. His concentration on form rather than plot was a key factor in liberating the American short story from the confining techniques of writers in the genteel tradition who were in vogue when Anderson was writing his first novel, Windy McPherson’s son (1916).

Anderson’s first important work, and possibly his finest, was Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a collection of stories about the inhabitants of a small town who did not fit into the accepted pattern of community life. In these sketches his concern was with the failures rather than with the successful. Anderson told their tales with compassion and sympathy, and, through his characters’ maimed or suppressed emotions, he lent significance to neglected aspects of life in an era of respectability, easy success, and commercialism. His succeeding stories and novels evolved from this theme, which, with his experiment in form, enabled the American short story writers of the following decades to reach heights of subtlety and psychological penetration.

The principal repository of Anderson’s manuscripts is the Newberry Library in Chicago. Placed in the Library by the writer’s widow, Mrs. Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, this collection, numbering some 16,690 items, contains his extensive correspondence with publishers, editors, artists, and notable writers of the twentieth century, among them Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, and Thomas Wolfe (see [item 753]). In addition to Anderson’s numerous short stories and articles, the collection contains the manuscripts of many of his most important writings: Winesburg, Ohio, Kit Brandon, Dark laughter, Many marriages, and A new testament. His diaries for the period, 1936-1941, as well as scrapbooks of reviews and clippings, are also included. It is this collection of papers which Anderson’s future biographers and critics must consult and examine to fully assess his note-worthy influence on and contribution to American fiction.

Arrangement of the bibliography falls quite naturally into two main divisions: writings by Anderson, and writings about the man and his works. In the first section a chronological, descriptive listing of Anderson’s separately published works (together with citations for significant reprints and translations) is followed by an enumeration of books to which Anderson contributed and dramatizations of his writings. Then follows an alphabetical title listing of Anderson’s contributions to periodicals (Raymond Gozzi’s bibliography, [item 593], was of value in compiling this section), a list of periodicals and newspapers which he edited, and a select list of his contributions to the Smyth County News. Writings about Anderson are listed alphabetically by author or other main entry in the second section, followed by a representative selection of reviews of Anderson’s works. We have endeavored to make our listings complete through 1959.

We are particularly grateful to Mrs. Eleanor Anderson for her interest and advice, and for allowing us to reproduce a page of the manuscript of Winesburg, Ohio from the Newberry Library Collection. For permission to use his photograph portrait of Anderson as a frontispiece, we are indebted to Mr. Edward Steichen of the Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Ben C. Bowman of the Newberry Library was especially helpful in answering our numerous inquiries and in describing the contents of the Anderson Collection; without his generous assistance many bibliographical questions would have necessarily remained unanswered. Finally, we acknowledge the invaluable co-operation of librarians throughout the country in verifying citations and other points of information.

EUGENE P. SHEEHY
KENNETH A. LOHF

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 1960

PART I
WORKS BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Individual Works

WINDY McPHERSON’S SON. 1916

1. WINDY | McPHERSON’S | SON | [panel line] | BY | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [double panel line] | NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY | LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD | MCMXVI [title surrounded by a triple line border]

[1]-347p. 20½ × 13½ cm. Orange cloth stamped in gold on spine and gold and green on cover. One page of advertisements appears on the verso of p.347.

On verso of title-page (p.[4]): Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company, New York.

Dedication (p.[5]): To the living men and women of my own Middle Western home town this book is dedicated.

2. First English edition:

London, John Lane, 1916. 347p.

3. Reprints:

New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1922. 349p. Revised edition with a new concluding chapter.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1923. 349p.

MARCHING MEN. 1917

4. MARCHING | MEN | [panel line] | BY | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | AUTHOR OF “WINDY McPHERSON’S SON” | [double panel line] | NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY | LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD | TORONTO: S. B. Gundy ⁂ ⁂ MCMXVII [title surrounded by a triple line border]

314p. 19½ × 13 cm. Red cloth stamped in gold on cover and spine.

On verso of title-page (p[4]): Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company, New York.

Dedication (p.[5]): To American workingmen.

5. Reprint:

New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1921. 264p.

6. Translation:

V nogu! Leningrad, Mysl, 1927. 232p. Tr., Mark Volosov. Foreword, V. Lavretski.

MID-AMERICAN CHANTS. 1918

7. MID-AMERICAN | CHANTS | BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON | AUTHOR OF “MARCHING MEN,” “WINDY McPHERSON’S SON,” ETC. | NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY | LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD | MCMXVIII

82p. 21½ × 14 cm. Yellow cloth stamped in gold on cover and spine; green panel on cover.

On verso of title-page (p.[4]): Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company, New York.

Dedication (p.[5]): To Marion Margaret Anderson.

A Foreword by Anderson, dated February 1918, appears on p.7-8.

Contents: The cornfields; Chicago; Song of industrial America; Song of Cedric the Silent; Song of the break of day; Song of the beginning of courage; Revolt; A lullaby; Song of Theodore; Manhattan; Spring song; Industrialism; Salvo; The planting; Song of the middle world; The stranger; Song of the love of women; Song of Stephen the Westerner; Song to the lost ones; Forgotten song; American spring song; The beam; Song to new song; Song for dark nights; The lover; Night whispers; Song to the sap; Rhythms; Unborn; Night; A visit; Chant to dawn in a factory town; Song of the mating time; Song for lonely roads; Song long after; Song of the soul of Chicago; Song of the drunken business man; Song to the laugh; Hosanna; War; Mid-American prayer; We enter in; Dirge of war; Little song to a Western statesman; Song of the bug; Assurance; Reminiscent song; Evening song; Song of the singer.

8. Reprint:

New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1921. 82p.

WINESBURG, OHIO. 1919

9. WINESBURG, OHIO | A GROUP OF TALES OF | OHIO SMALL TOWN LIFE | [panel line] | BY | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [publishers’ device with panel line above and below] | NEW YORK | B. W. Huebsch | MCMXIX [title surrounded by single line border]

[x] 303p. 19 × 13 cm. Orange cloth with white paper label on spine and publishers’ device blind-stamped on cover. Top edge stained orange yellow. Map of Winesburg, Ohio, by Harald Toksvig appears on paste-down endpaper. In the first printing, p.86, line 5, reads: “an intense silence seemed to lay over everything.” Later printings changed “lay” to “lie.” On p.251, line 3, the type in the word “the” is broken. For further identification of the first and later printings, see [item 713].

Dedication (p.[v]): To the memory of my mother Emma Smith Anderson.

Contents: The book of the grotesque; Hands; Paper pills; Mother; The philosopher; Nobody knows; Godliness (Parts I and II); Surrender (Part III); Terror (Part IV); 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.

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., 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