first edition
1916 · New York
by Sherwood Anderson
New York: John Lane Company, 1916. Very Good. New York: John Lane Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 347pp+1ad. Missing dust jacket. Rusty orange cloth bound boards with gilt and black stamping and pictorial decoration. Boards generally scuffed, shelfworn, dust soiled, and bumped at extremities with minor water staining and abrasions to spine and back panel. Pages sit slightly proud at top fore-edge. Top edge scuffed and endsheets lightly offset. Pages toned as expected and clean. Newspaper obituary clipping of the author pasted at rear endsheet with pen dating and naming the publication. A Very Good copy of the author's first novel. (Inventory (truncated)