Part 2

Chapter 23,376 wordsPublic domain

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_

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_

[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_

[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_

[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_

[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_

[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_

[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_

[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_

[x] 130p. 19½ × 13 cm. Black cloth stamped in gold on spine. One thousand unnumbered copies of which 50 were signed by the author.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Printed and bound ... by The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Laura Lou Copenhaver in appreciation.

Contents: Meeting Ring Lardner; Death on a winter day; The Dreiser; Prize fighters and authors; Mr. J. J. Lankes and his woodcuts; Two Irishmen; To George Borrow; A Stonewall Jackson man; Lincoln Steffens talks of Russia; No swank; Visit to a painter; Gertrude Stein; A man’s mind; Lawrence again; Margaret Anderson: real—unreal; Paul; To Jasper Deeter: a letter.

_PUZZLED AMERICA. 1935_

xvi, 287p. 21 × 14½ cm. Blue cloth stamped in gold on spine and cover. First printing has code letter _A_ on copyright page.

_Dedication_ (p.[v]): To Roger Sergel.

Contents: Introduction; At the mine mouth; The price of aristocracy; People; Tough babes in the woods; Blue smoke; “I want to work”; A union meeting; New tyrants of the land; Elizabethton, Tennessee; “Please let me explain”; The nationalist; They elected him; Revolt in South Dakota; Village wassail; Night in a corn town; Olsonville; The return of the princess.

_KIT BRANDON. 1936_

[x] 373p. 19½ × 13½ cm. Black cloth stamped in white on spine and cover. Top edge stained blue. First printing has code letter _A_ on copyright page.

_Dedication_ (p.[vii]): To Mary Pratt Emmett.

56. First English edition:

London, Hutchinson, 1937. 346p.

57. Reprint:

London, Hutchinson, 1938. 346p. (Cheap edition)

58. Translations:

_Kit Brandon._ Copenhagen, Hasselbalch, 1937. 366p. Tr., Arne Stevns.

_Kit Brandon._ Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 1947. 312p. Tr., Waldie van Eck.

_Ritratto di Kit Brandon. Romanzo._ Milan, G. Feltrinelli, 1959. 381p. Tr., Marcella Bonsanti.

_PLAYS, WINESBURG AND OTHERS. 1937_

xxii, 242p. Brown cloth stamped in blue on spine.

Contents: An explanation; Note; Jasper Deeter: a dedication; Winesburg, Ohio; The triumph of the egg; Mother; They married later.

_A WRITER’S CONCEPTION OF REALISM. 1939_

20p. 15 × 8½ cm. Wrappers.

_HOME TOWN. 1940_

[iv] 145p. 26 × 17½ cm. Gray cloth stamped in green on cover and spine.

_SHERWOOD ANDERSON’S MEMOIRS. 1942_

62. Sherwood | Anderson’s | Memoirs | New York | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY [title surrounded by a single line border]

[x] 507p. 22 × 14½ cm. Black cloth stamped in gold on spine and cover.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Copyright, 1942 by Eleanor Anderson.

Contents: This book; Book I. What a man’s made of: The age; The family; A small town street; Through the corn; Experiments; Discovery of a father; New worlds; Ohio pagans; Horses, bicycles and men; My sister Stella; Book II. American money: Chicago; We share; Money! Money!; The capture of Caratura; I court a rich girl; The golf ball; The Italian’s garden; The man of ideas; Brother Earl; Book III. A robin’s egg renaissance: The nest; Bayard Barton; In Jackson Park; We little children of the arts; Margy Currie; Ben and Burton; All will be free; The death of Mrs. Folger; A chance missed; The conquering male; The finding; Book IV. The literary life: Waiting for Ben Huebsch; I write too much of queer people; Be little; Old Mary, the dogs, and Theda Bara; Certain Meetings South; New York, the ’20’s; Dreiser’s party; Writing stories; Man with a book; Meeting Horace Liveright; I build a house; Book V. Into the Thirties: A dedication and an explanation; A man friend; Why I live where I live; The death of Lawrence; I become a protester; Backstage with a martyr; The feeders; The sound of the stream; Book VI. Life, not death—: The other one; Work fast, man; I went with Eleanor; Writers sweet and sour; Mexican night; Dinner in Thessaly; After a conference; The dance is on; One by one; God bless the Americas; The fortunate one.

63. Translation:

_Intimidad de un novelista; memorias de Sherwood Anderson._ Buenos Aires, Editorial Claridad [1947] 520p. Tr., Francisco Madrid. (Coleccion de viajes, memorias y aventuras. vol. 2)

_THE SHERWOOD ANDERSON READER. 1947_

xxx, 850p. 21 × 14 cm. Light tan cloth stamped in red and green on spine and cover. Top edge stained red.

Contents: Introduction; Nobody laughed; Blackfoot’s masterpiece; Paper pills; Hands; Tandy; The untold lie; Unlighted lamps; The New Englander; Chicago; Song of the soul of Chicago; Chicago again; The egg; I want to know why; The contract; The sad horn-blowers; The man with the trumpet; The lame one; The dumb man; Brothers; One throat; When we care; Song of Theodore; The book of the grotesque; Alfred Stieglitz; Foreword from _Horses and men_; The man’s story; Milk-bottles; A meeting South; The return; Meeting Ring Lardner; Brother death; A part of earth; The yellow gown; A writer’s conception of realism; We little children of the arts; The sound of the stream; Morning roll-call; I’m a fool; A sentimental journey; Justice; A dead dog; The death of Bill Graves; Daughters; An Ohio pagan; The man with a scar; River journey; Smyth County News (Editorials); Father Abraham; a Lincoln fragment; Machine song; Loom dance; Mill girls; The TVA; Tough babes in the woods; ‘Please let me explain’; Bud (As Kit saw him); Brown bomber; Dedication of the Memoirs; Introduction to the Memoirs; Discovery of a father; Girl by the stove; White spot; All will be free; I build a house; The American small town; The corn-planting; A walk in the moonlight; His chest of drawers; Not sixteen; Tim and General Grant.

The following items included in this volume were previously unpublished: Nobody laughed; A part of earth; Morning roll-call; Daughters; Father Abraham: a Lincoln fragment; White spot; Tim and General Grant.

65. Translations:

_Il meglio di Sherwood Anderson._ Milan, Longanesi, 1954. 1048p. Tr., Marcella Hannau.

_Ur ingenstans in i ingenting._ Stockholm, C. E. Fritze, 1952. 287p. Tr., Olov Jonason. Preface, Artur Lundkvist.

_THE PORTABLE SHERWOOD ANDERSON. 1949_

vi, 631p. 17 × 11 cm. Brown cloth stamped in dark brown.

Contents: Editor’s introduction; The chronology of Sherwood Anderson’s life and books; A selected bibliography on Sherwood Anderson. From _Winesburg, Ohio_: Hands; The philosopher; Godliness; The strength of God; The teacher; Loneliness; Departure. _Poor white._ Selected stories: The contract; The egg; I’m a fool; The man who became a woman; A meeting South; Death in the woods. Men and women: Four American impressions: Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis; Dreiser. Reportage and editorial: The American county fair; In Washington. A selection of letters: To Alfred Stieglitz, John Anderson, Burton Emmett, Ferdinand Schevill, Edmund Wilson, Dorothy Dudley, Burton and Mary Emmett, Theodore Dreiser, John L. Lewis, Henry Goddard Leach, Mary Blair, James Boyd, Paul Appel, Maxwell Perkins, Ettie Stettheimer, Gilbert Wilson, and Anita Loos.

67. Reprint:

New York, Viking Press [1956] vi, 631p. (Viking Paperbound Portable, P42)

_LETTERS. 1953_

xxv, 479p. 22½ × 14½ cm. Black cloth stamped in gold on spine.

_Essays and Stories_

69. City plowman. _In_ Frank, Waldo, and others, editors. _America and Alfred Stieglitz._ Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran, 1934. p.303-08.

70. Harry breaks through. _In_ Kreymborg, Alfred, and others, editors. _The new caravan._ New York, W. W. Norton, 1936. p.84-89.

71. I want to be counted. _In_ National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. _Harlan miners speak._ New York, Harcourt, Brace [1932] p.298-312. (“An address delivered before a meeting held by the National Committee ... in New York City on December 6, 1931, to protest the legal and illegal terror in the Harlan, Kentucky, coal fields”)

72. Man and his imagination. _In_ Centeno, Augusto, editor. _The intent of the artist._ Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1941. p.39-79.

73. Ohio: I’ll say we’ve done well. _In_ Gruening, Ernest Henry, editor. _These United States; a symposium._ First series. New York, Boni and Liveright [1923] p.109-17.

74. There she is—she is taking her bath. _In_ Kreymborg, Alfred, and others, editors. _The second American caravan._ New York, Macaulay, 1928. p.100-11.

_Introductions and Forewords_

75. _Alfred Stieglitz presents 7 Americans; A catalogue of an exhibition at the Anderson Galleries, New York, March 9-28, 1925._ [New York, 1925] Introduction in form of a poem entitled “Seven alive,” p.3.

76. Crane, Stephen. _The works of Stephen Crane._ Volume XI: Midnight sketches and other impressions. New York, Alfred A. Knopf [1926] Introduction, dated September 1926, p.xi-xv.

77. Dreiser, Theodore. _Free and other stories._ New York, Modern Library [1918] Introduction, p.v-x.

78. Jolas, Eugène. _Cinema._ New York, Adelphi Company, 1926. Introduction, dated June 1, 1926, p.9-10.

79. McKee, Philip. _Big town._ New York, John Day [1931] Foreword, p.1-9.

80. Shaw, Lloyd. _Cowboy dances._ Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1939. Foreword, in the form of a letter written from Marion, Virginia, p.5. Revised edition, 1949.

81. Sklar, George and Albert Maltz. _Peace on earth._ New York and Los Angeles, Samuel French; London, Samuel French, Ltd., 1934. Foreword, p.v-vi.

82. Whitman, Walt. _Leaves of grass._ New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [1933] Introduction, entitled “Walt Whitman,” p.v-vii.

_Letters_

83. Desperate need. _Nation_ 135:506 November 23, 1932. Letter to the Editor concerning the Prisoners’ Relief Fund.

84. The herald angel sings. _New York Times_ December 10, 1933, section 10, p.4. Letter to the Drama Editor, dated December 4, 1933, regarding the Theatre Union’s production of “Peace on earth.”

85. Letter [to V. F. Calverton] _Modern Quarterly_ 2:81 Fall 1924. In reference to Calverton’s article on Anderson: see item 529.

86. Letters from Sherwood Anderson. In _Paul Rosenfeld, voyager in the arts_, edited by Jerome Mellquist and Lucie Wiese. New York, Creative Age, 1948. p.197-232.

87. The letters of Sherwood Anderson. _Atlantic Monthly_ 191:30-33 June 1953. Letters to Roy Jansen and George Freitag, edited by H. M. Jones.

88. Letters of Sherwood Anderson. _Berkeley_ no.1:1-4 [1947] Letters to Robert Morss Lovett and Ferdinand Schevill.

89. Letters of Sherwood Anderson. _Harper’s Bazaar_ 73:130, 201-03 February 1949. Letters to John Anderson and Theodore Dreiser.

90. [Letters to Gertrude Stein] In _The flowers of friendship; letters written to Gertrude Stein_, edited by Donald Gallup. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Includes eleven letters from Anderson.

91. Letters to Van Wyck Brooks. _Story_ 19:42-62 September-October 1941.

_Dramatizations_

92. _Above suspicion._ In _The Free Company presents; a collection of plays about the meaning of America_. New York, The Free Company; New York, Dodd, Mead, 1941. p.269-301. Reprinted as a pamphlet by the Free Company in the same year.

93. _I’m a fool._ Dramatized by Christopher Sergel. Chicago, Dramatic Publishing Company [1942] 34p.

94. Mother. A one-act play. _In_ Wilde, Percival, editor. _Contemporary one-act plays from nine countries._ Boston, Little, Brown, 1936. p.43-58.

95. Textiles. A play for the radio. _In_ Kozlenko, William, editor. _Contemporary one-act plays._ New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. p.1-22.

96. _The triumph of the egg._ A drama in one act; dramatized by Raymond O’Neil. Chicago, Dramatic Publishing Company [1932] 25p.

97. _Winesburg, Ohio. A drama in three acts._ Dramatized by Christopher Sergel. New York premiere, February 5, 1958. Unpublished.

_Contributions to Periodicals_

Reprintings in collections of Anderson’s work are indicated as follows:

_ALN_ _Alice and The Lost Novel_ _BD_ _Beyond Desire_ _DW_ _Death in the Woods_ _HM_ _Horses and Men_ _HT_ _Hello Towns_ _KB_ _Kit Brandon_ _LSA_ _Letters of Sherwood Anderson_ _MAC_ _Mid-American Chants_ _NGR_ _Nearer the Grass Roots_ _NS_ _No Swank_ _NT_ _New Testament_ _PA_ _Puzzled America_ _PSA_ _Portable Sherwood Anderson_ _PW_ _Perhaps Women_ _PWO_ _Plays, Winesburg and Others_ _SAM_ _Sherwood Anderson’s Memoirs_ _SAN_ _Sherwood Anderson’s Notebook_ _SAR_ _Sherwood Anderson Reader_ _SS_ _Story Teller’s Story_ _TE_ _Triumph of the Egg_ _WO_ _Winesburg, Ohio_

98. Aching breasts and snow-white hearts; being some fan letters of Ezra Bone of Elmore, Tennessee, to Gloria Swanson. _Vanity Fair_ 25:51, 108 January 1926.

99. Adventures in form and color. _Little Review_ 7:[64] January-March 1921.

100. Advertising a nation. _Agricultural Advertising_ 12:389 May 1905.

101. Alfred Stieglitz. _New Republic_ 32:215-17 October 25, 1922. _SAN_, _SAR_.

102. America on a cultural jag. _Saturday Review of Literature_ 4:364-65 December 3, 1927.

103. American spectator. _American Spectator_ 2,no.16:1 February 1934.

104. Another wife. _Scribner’s Magazine_ 80:587-94 December 1926. _DW._

105. An apology for crudity. _Dial_ 63:437-38 November 8, 1917. _SAN._

106. At Amsterdam. _New Masses_ 8:11 November 1932.

107. At the mine mouth. _Today_ 1:5, 19-21 December 30, 1933. _PA_ (with revisions).

108. An awakening. _Little Review_ 5:13-21 December 1918. _WO._

109. Backstage with a martyr. _Coronet_ 8:39-41 July 1940. _SAM._

110. Beauty. _Harper’s Bazaar_ 63:78-79, 118 January 1929. _ALN_ (entitled “Alice”), _DW_ (entitled “Like a queen”).

111. Betrayed. _Golden Book_ 1:743-44 May 1925. Concerns Nathaniel Wright Stephenson’s biography of Lincoln.

112. Blackfoot’s masterpiece. _Forum_ 55:679-83 June 1916. _SAR._

113. Blue smoke. _Today_ 1:6-7, 23 February 24, 1934. _PA._

114. Boardwalk fireworks. _Today_ 5:6-7, 19 November 9, 1935.

115. Broken. _Century_ 105:643-56 March 1923. _HM_ (entitled “A Chicago hamlet”).

116. Brothers. _Bookman_ (N.Y.) 53:110-15 April 1921. _TE_, _SAR_.

117. Brown boomer. _Signatures_ no.3:302-08 Winter 1937-1938. _SAR_ (with corrected title, “Brown bomber”).

118. Burt Emmett. _Colophon_ n.s.1,no.1:7-9 Summer 1935.

119. A business man’s reading. _Reader_ 2:503-04 October 1903.

120. Business types: the boyish man. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:53 October 1904.

121. Business types: the discouraged man. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:43-44 July 1904.

122. Business types: the good fellow. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:36 January 1904.

123. Business types: the hot young ’un and the cold old ’un. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:24-26 September 1904.