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POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio
by Anderson, Sherwood
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc, 1920. First Edition, Second Issue without publisher's light blue topstain. Cloth. Very Good. Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper, small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), blue cloth without publisher's light blue topstain, 371 pages. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the Author! Solid copy with no notes or markings by previous owners. Moderate wear and soil to cloth & edgewear. Upper right corner of cover slightly bumped causing a slight curl to about a dozen pages. Some scattered light foxing. Very faded gilt on spine. No dust jacket though protective clear mylar added. <br /> <br /> Poor White followed the success of Anderson's highly praised Winesburg, Ohio (1919), and was itself considered one of the author's better novels. Martin Seymour-Smith has called Poor White "his best novel." <br /> <br /> It relates with clear and sensitive prose the rise of a boy raised haphazardly by a drunken father; then transplanted to the care of a New England-bred second "mother" in a poor town on the mudflats of the western Missori shoreline of the Mississippi River. Anderson has a nuanced quasi-autobiographical view overlapping--among others-- Mark Twain's as the protagonist gradually manages to get some education, self mastery, and rise as an inventor.
Synopsis
From the book:Hugh McVey was born in a little hole of a town stuck on a mud bank on the western shore of the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. It was a miserable place in which to be born. With the exception of a narrow strip of black mud along the river, the land for ten miles back from the town - called in derision by river men "Mudcat Landing" - was almost entirely worthless and unproductive. The soil, yellow, shallow and stony, was tilled, in Hugh's time, by a race of long gaunt men who seemed as exhausted and no-account as the land on which they lived. They were chronically dis-couraged, and the merchants and artisans of the town were in the same state. The merchants, who ran their stores - poor tumble-down ramshackle affairs - on the credit system, could not get pay for the goods they handed out over their counters and the artisans, the shoemakers, carpenters and harnessmakers, could not get pay for the work they did. Only the town's two saloons prospered. The saloon keepers sold their wares for cash and, as the men of the town and the farmers who drove into town felt that without drink life was unbearable, cash always could be found for the purpose of getting drunk.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8715
- Title
- POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio
- Author
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Issue without publisher's light blue t
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. W. Huebsch, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Missouri, alcoholism, poverty, education, invention, work, midwest, horatio Adler
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BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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