Winesburg, Ohio
"It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood..."
FIRST EDITION of Anderson's highly influential masterpiece; one of the great highspots of American Literature.
"Winesburg, Ohio is the first modern American expression of the wasteland theme later adumbrated in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown (1933), and Natanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), the latter, like Hemingway's novel, greatly indebted to Anderson's model" (Brom Weber, Sherwood Anderson).
First issue, with "lay" reading line 5, p 86, broken type on p 251, top edge stained yellow, and endpaper map at front. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919. Octavo, original yellow cloth; custom half-morocco slipcase. Without the extremely rare dust jacket. A fine copy.
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