ANDERSON, Sherwood

Poor White

New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1920. First Edition. First Printing, second issue, without topstain. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 371pp. Touch of sunning to spine, gilt slightly dulled, light foxing to upper edge of text, with moderate spotting to pastedowns and endpapers; Very Good+. Dustjacket has subtle fading to spine, a few tiny nicks to the crown, with light dust-soil to panels; Very Good+, and considerably better than usually encountered.

Anderson's fifth book, a novel centering around the rise of a poor white Tennessee farm worker who became a rich industrialist, the result of an agricultural machinery invention. The book also contains strong strike elements towards the end, where a last-ditch effort is made by factory workers to resist the juggernaut of materialism. The strike ultimately fails, and the protagonist recognizes "that individuality, creativity and dignity have all been swept away by the victory of the Machine Age." BLAKE p.240. COAN p.80.

Price: $175.00

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