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Merle Johnson, High Spots of American Literature (1929), p. 14.

Whitman Bennett, A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting (1941), p. 216.

Merle Johnson, American First Editions, rev. Jacob Blanck (3rd ed. rev.; 1936), p. 21.

Merle Johnson's American First Editions, rev. Jacob Blanck (4th ed. rev.; 1942), p. 25.

"A Gutter Would Be Spoon River," New York Sun, June 1, 1919, p. 3.

One grammatical error mentioned by the Sun reviewer still escaped the editors, however. All printings of the book which I have seen print this faulty passage (page 194, line 12): "the boy . . . whom she thought might possess a talent for the understanding of life. . . ."

The second copy which I have seen agrees with the Newberry copy in all particulars except one: the Newberry copy has no map of "Winesburg, Ohio" printed on the inside of the front cover, whereas the other copy and all copies of subsequent printings which I have seen have such a map. The Newberry copy may have been merely a defective one, or perhaps it represents a first state of the first printing.