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_SHERWOOD ANDERSON: A BIBLIOGRAPHY_

Sherwood Anderson _A Bibliography_

_COMPILED BY_ EUGENE P. SHEEHY & KENNETH A. LOHF

_THE TALISMAN PRESS_ _Los Gatos, California_ _1960_

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-53225

_Contents_

PREFACE xiv

I. WORKS BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Individual Works 18

Essays and Stories 43

Introductions and Forewords 44

Letters 45

Dramatizations 46

Contributions to Periodicals 47

Serial Publications Edited by Anderson 66

Smyth County News Contributions 67

II. WRITINGS ABOUT SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Books, Parts of Books and Periodical Articles 74

Poems, Parodies, and Miscellaneous Items 104

Reviews 105

INDEX 118

“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._

_Illustrations_

PORTRAIT OF SHERWOOD ANDERSON _Facing title-page_

MANUSCRIPT PAGE FROM _Winesburg, Ohio_ _Page 11_

BINDING OF _Windy McPherson’s Son_ _Facing Opposite_

_Winesburg, Ohio_ TITLE-PAGE, FIRST EDITION _Page 21_

_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]-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_

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_

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_

[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.

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_

[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_

[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.[i], 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_

[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_

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_

[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_

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_

[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_

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_