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INSCRIBED ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. A Story Teller's Story. 8vo, brown cloth lettered in gold; dust jacket, few soil marks, spine panel toned, with some
INSCRIBED ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. A Story Teller's Story. 8vo, brown cloth lettered in gold; dust jacket, few soil marks, spine panel toned, with some wear at head and circular chip with paper tear on publisher's device; bookplate from the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature. New York, (1924)
- Notes: first edition. warmly inscribed and signed by anderson to jane prall: "My second mother." Prall was the mother of Anderson's third wife Elizabeth whom he married in 1924, the year of publication. Elizabeth ran a bookstore in New York City where, in 1921, she offered the young William Faulkner a job. When she and Anderson returned to Mississippi in 1924, Faulkner paid them a visit that began a close relationship between the two authors. Anderson, of course, recommended Faulkner's first novel, Soldier's Pay, for publication and encouraged him to concentrate on the Mississippi region he knew so intimately.
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