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Author: Anderson, Sherwood
Title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
Place: New York
Publisher: B.W. Huebsch
Date: 1919
Item # : 186468
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   5
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 480
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Description:
[10], 303 pp. Map of Winesburg, Ohio printed on front pastedown, as issued. 7¼x5, original yellow cloth, paper spine label, top page edge in matching yellow, housed in custom black cloth slipcase. First Edition, First Printing, First State.
A highspot of 20th-Century American literature; signed by the author on the half-title. First state with the yellow stained top edge matching the yellow cloth, the front pastedown with a map of the town, the word "lay" on p.86 (line 5) and broken type on p. 251 in "the."
Condition:
Soiling, spine slightly faded (½" tear to head), old wear to spine label, ends and corners a bit bumped; front hinge tender, clipped piece of related printed text tipped-in on rear flyleaf, evidence of printed paper removal on verso of last text page, small circular gilt-lettered red leather label of Neva and Guy Littell on front pastedown (not affecting map but causing minor offsetting to front free endpaper; about very good.
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