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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Seller: Borg Antiquarian

United States
About 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… Read More
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