Poor White.
New York: B.W, Huebsch, 1921. Third Printing of the First Edition. A Very good copy without the dust jacket. This copy is signed by Anderson. Published one year after Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson's Poor White offers a bleak portrait of luck and modernization in middle America. The main character is Hugh McVey who moves from Missouri to an agrarian town in Ohio, hoping to become an inventor. One of his inventions makes him a millionaire and transforms the small town into a manufacturing center. But McVey is plagued by the search for love in a new America overrun by lifeless machines. Published in 1920, Poor White has a modernist sensibility and a realist attention to everyday life but also an eerily contemporary resonance. Item #28709
Price: $150.00