ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. 1876-1941. Winesburg, Ohio. New York B.W. Huebsch, 1919.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IANDERSON, SHERWOOD. 1876-1941.
Winesburg, Ohio. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919. 8vo. Publisher's yellow cloth, printed paper spine label, original printed dust jacket. The binding with ink marks to upper joint, some darkening. Dust jacket with restorations to folds, some minor marginal chipping. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF ANDERSON'S MASTERPIECE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, with top edge stained yellow, with "lay" in line 5 of p 86 and "the" in line 3 on p 251 in broken type. In William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he paid tribute to Anderson: "The only literary people I have known are the few Americans who are my coevals—Hemingway and Dos Passos and Thomas Wolfe and [Erskine] Caldwell, all of us children of Sherwood Anderson and all of us failures since the failure of one, like the success, is the failure of all." Sheehy & Lohf 9.