118p. 18 × 11 cm. Blue cloth stamped in gold and red on cover and spine. Also 265 large paper copies numbered and signed.
Dedication (p.[7]): Dedicated to Horace Liveright.
Contents: A young man; One who looked up at the sky; Testament—four songs; The man with the trumpet; Hunger; Death; The healer; Man speaking to a woman; A dreamer; Man walking alone; Testament of an old man; Half gods; Ambition; In a workingman’s rooming house; A man standing by a bridge; The red-throated black; Singing swamp negro; Thoughts of a man passed in a lonely street at night; Cities; A youth speaking slowly; One who sought knowledge; The minister of God; A persistent lover; The visit in the morning—; The dumb man; A poet; A man resting from labor; A stoic lover; A young Jew; The story teller; A thinker; The man in the brown coat; One puzzled concerning himself; The dreamer; A vagrant; Young man in a room; Negro on the docks at Mobile, Ala.; Word factories; Man lying on a couch; The ripper; One who would not grow old; The New Englander; The builder; Young man filled with the feeling of power; A dying poet; Brother; The lame one; Two glad men; Answering voice of a second glad man; Chicago; Challenge of the sea; Poet; At the well; An emotion; Der Tag; Another poet; A man and two women standing by a wall facing the sea.
ALICE AND THE LOST NOVEL. 1929
44. ALICE AND THE LOST NOVEL | by | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | being Number Ten of | The Woburn Books | [publishers’ device] | Published at London in 1929 by | ELKIN MATHEWS & MARROT [title surrounded by a double line border]
[1]-[28]p. 20½ × 15 cm. Light blue paper over boards colored in dark blue on covers. Pages uncut. Signed by the author on p.[2]
Colophon (p.[2]): Five hundred and thirty numbered copies of this story have been set in Monotype Eleven Point Plantin, and printed by Robert MacLehose & Co. Ltd., at the University Press, Glasgow; Nos. 1-500 only are for sale and Nos. 501-530 for presentation.
HELLO TOWNS! 1929
45. HELLO TOWNS! | [decorated line] | by | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [single line] | [decorated line] | 19 [publishers’ device] 29 | [decorated line] | New York · Horace Liveright [title, single line, and publishers’ device in red]
[1]-339p. 21½ × 14½ cm. Brown cloth stamped in orange on spine and blind-stamped on cover. Top edge stained orange. In first printing, page 35, line 30, “fingers” is misspelled.