Item #8715 POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio. Sherwood Anderson.
POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio
POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio
POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio
POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio
POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio

POOR WHITE; A Novel by Sherwood Anderson / author of Winesburg, Ohio

New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc, 1920. First Edition, Second Issue without publisher's light blue topstain. Cloth. 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. Very Good. Item #8715

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.

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."

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.

Price: $245.00

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