University of Virginia Library

Sherwood Anderson: Fugitive Pamphlets and Broadsides, 1918-1940
by
Ray Lewis White

Sherwood Anderson: A Bibliography (Los Gatos: Talisman Press, 1960) illustrates a problem faced by the scholar or collector devoted to the life or works of a single author. Eugene P. Sheehy and Kenneth A. Lohf have provided the only primary bibliography of Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941). However, the specialist willing to read Anderson's several thousand letters and hundreds of literary manuscripts at The Newberry Library would discover the existence of numerous pamphlets and broadsides too fugitive or ephemeral to have been noted or described. These additional works, published during the author's life, must supplement the commonly known entries in Sheehy and Lohf's Sherwood Anderson: A Bibliography.

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• SHERWOOD | ANDERSON | [photograph of Anderson] | "A new, fresh, clean and virile spirit | in American literature."— | Chicago Evening Post | [double rule] | JOHN LANE COMPANY | PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK
• Pagination: [1-2] 3-8
• Contents: [1] title page; [2] portrait of Anderson by William Hollandsworth; 3-7 "Sherwood Anderson Writes of Himself"; 8 notice of three books by Anderson

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• Paper Size: 15.5 l x 8.6 w
• Lines per page: 36
• Note: This publicity pamphlet was published after 12 April 1918 and before 8 May 1919.

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• [within single rules] JACK JONES—"THE PICKLER." [rule] | BY SHERWOOD ANDERSON
• Pagination: [1]
• Contents: "Jack Jones—'The Pickler'"
• Paper Size: 26.6 l x 21.0 w
• Lines per page: 69
• Note: The broadside reprints "Jack Jones—'The Pickler'" from the Chicago Daily News of 18 June 1919. Above the last two, shortened columns of the broadside is a drawing of Jack Jones by Stanislaw Szukalski, dated 1919.

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• LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 865 | Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius | Hands, and Other Stories | Sherwood Anderson | HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY | GIRARD, KANSAS
• Copyright Page: Copyright, 1919, by B. W. Huebsch | (Selected from "Winesburg, Ohio," by arrangement | with B. W. Huebsch, Inc.) | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• Pagination: [1-4] 5-63 [64]
• Contents: [1] title page; [2] copyright page, [3] contents page, [4]-63 "Hands", "Paper Pills", "Mother", "The Philosopher", "Nobody Knows", "A Man of Ideas", "Adventure", [64] blank
• Paper Size: 12.8 l x 8.3 w
• Lines per page: 35
• Cover: Of stiff blue paper
• Front: LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 865 | Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius | Hands, | and Other Stories | Sherwood Anderson
• Back: blank
• Note: Published in 1925; later reprinted in a yellow cover. An alternate blue cover reads: Main Street Tales | (Hands, and Other Stories) | Sherwood Anderson

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• LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 866 | Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius | The Untold Lie, | and Other Stories | Sherwood Anderson | HALDEMANJULIUS COMPANY | GIRARD, KANSAS
• Copyright Page: Copyright, 1919, by B. W. Huebsch | (Reprinted from "Winesburg, Ohio," by Arrange-|ment with B. W. Huebsch, Inc. | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• Pagination: [1-4] 5-64

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• Contents: [1] title page; [2] copyright page; [3] contents page; [4]-64 "The Untold Lie", "Drink", "Death", "Sophistication", "The Strength of God", "Departure"
• Paper Size: 12.5 l x 8.4 w
• Lines per page: 35
• Cover: Of stiff blue paper Front: LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 866 | Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius | The Untold Lie, | and Other Stories | Sherwood Anderson
• Back: blank
• Note: Published in 1925; later reprinted in tan cover

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• [print] | THE MATTATVCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | ANNOVNCES THE OPENING OF AN | EXHIBITION OF RECENT PAINTINGS | by | ALFRED MAURER | FEBRVARY SIXTH TO TWENTY-EIGHTH | MCMXXVI
• Pagination: [1]
• Paper Size: 42.8 l x 16.0 w
• Paper Color: blue
• Lines per page: 33 lines of text
• Note: Text is reprinted from Sheehy-Lohf #28.

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• [within double rules] Grass Root News.
• Pagination: [1]
• Contents: "Grass Root News"
• Paper Size: 16.5 l x 13.0 w
• Lines per page: 27
• Note All printed with blue ink; a subscription blank to The Smyth County News in Marion, Virginia—the newspaper that Anderson bought and managed from 1927 to 1930

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• A BOOK ABOUT | THEODORE DREISER | AND HIS WORK
• Pagination: [1-24]
• Contents: [1] title page: [2] paste-in drawing of Dreiser by Hyde Man; [3-5] "Dreiser" by Sherwood Anderson; [6-7] "Theodore Dreiser A Portrait" by Edgar Lee Masters; [8-15] "The Case of Dreiser" by H. L. Mencken; [16-23] quotations from reviews of Dreiser's books; [24] "Biographical Note"
• Paper Size: 15.4 l x 8.1 w
• Paper Color: Cream
• Lines per page: 35
• Cover: Of stiff brown paper Front: [publisher's device: scribe] | An American Tragedy | The "Genius"-Moods | The Titan-The Financier | A Book About Myself | [in

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  red] Theodore | Drieser [end of red] | . . . . | Sister Carrie-Twelve Men | Jennie Gerhart-A Hoosier | Holiday-The Color of a | Great City-Free and | Other Stories-Plays of | the Natural and Super-|natural-Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub | The Hand of the Potter | Boni & Liveright | [scribe] | Good | Books | [scribe]
• Back: blank
• Note: Probably published in 1927; Anderson's essay on Dreiser had appeared in Horses and Men (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1923), pp. xi-xii. In a later printing, without the photograph on p. [2], quotations from reviews appear inside the back cover.

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• SHERWOOD ANDERSON | ON | MARGARET ANDERSON | FROM | THE NEW REPUBLIC | OF | June 11th, 1930 | Real—Unreal
• Pagination: [1-4]
• Contents: "Real-Unreal"
• Paper Size: 24.1 l x 15.8 w
• Paper Color: cream
• Lines per page: 48
• Note: A publicity pamphlet published by Covici, Friede for Margaret Anderson, My Thirty Years' War (New York: Covici, Friede, 1930); Sherwood Anderson's essay had appeared in New Republic, 63 (11 June 1930), 103-104.

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• An Open Letter | To | The President
• Copyright Page: Copyright, 1932 | The Marion Publishing Company | Marion, Virginia | Single Copy 10&c.nt; Dozen $1.00
• Pagination: [1-12]
• Contents: [1] title page; [2] copyright page; [3-9] letter of 11 August 1932 to Herbert Hoover; [10-12] blank
• Paper Size: 20.3 l x 10.5 w
• Lines per page: 46
• Note: Published in 1932 by the Southwest Virginia printshop owned by Sherwood Anderson and his son Robert Lane Anderson; later copies carried pasted onto the copyright page: Reprinted by permission of | The Nation | from the issue of August 31, 1932

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• VICKERY | ATKINS AND | TORREY | ANNOUNCE AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS | AND DRAWINGS BY VALENTI ANGELO | [design of winged lamb] | IN THEIR GALLERIES AT | 550 SUTTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO | FROM NOVEMBER 14th TO DECEMBER 3rd, 1932.
• Pagination: [1-8]
• Contents: [1] title page; [2] blank; [3-4] "A Letter From Sherwood Anderson"; [5] "List of Paintings"; [6] "List of Drawings"; [7-8] blank

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• Paper Size: 24.1 l x 16.3 w
• Lines per page: variable
• Note: On 22 May 1932, Angelo wrote Anderson to ask for an introduction for the fall catalogue of this exhibit.

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• GUMP GALLERIES | [painting of horse, inside rule] | ANNOUNCE AN EXHIBITION OF | THE RECENT PAINTINGS BY | VALENTI ANGELO
• Pagination: [1-4]
• Contents: [1] title page, [2] "Comments"; [3] "List of Paintings"; [4] blank
• Paper Size: 24.3 l x 18.1 w
• Lines per page: variable
• Note: This exhibit followed that announced in No. 10 above and probably occurred in the summer of 1933.

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• We Have the Honor to | Announce the First Exhibition in New York | of Paintings by | VALENTI ANGELO | [painting of horses] | FERARGIL | 63 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK | FROM DECEMBER 11th TO DECEMBER 31st 1933
• Pagination: [1-8]
• Contents: [1] title page; [2-3] blank; [4] "Comments" by Thomas Craven and Sherwood Anderson; [5] "List of Paintings"; [6-8] blank
• Paper Size: 22.0 l x 14.3 w
• Lines per page: variable
• Note: Published in early winter, 1933; see Art News, 32 (23 December 1933), 5.

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• THWARTED AMBITIONS | [rule] | Robert Lane Anderson | With a foreword | by | Sherwood Anderson | and woodcuts by | Wharton Esherick | Marion Publishing Company | Marion Virginia
• Copyright Page: [within single rules] Distributed by | CENTAUR BOOK SHOP | 206 S. Juniper | PHILADELPHIA, PA. | [below rules] Second Edition | [rule] | COPYRIGHT 1935 BY | ROBERT LANE ANDERSON
• Pagination: [1-11] 12-20 [21-24]
• Contents: [1-2] blank; [3] title page; [4] blank; [5] copyright page; [6-8] drawings of cow; [9-10] Sherwood Anderson, "The Small Town Paper"; [11]-[21] Robert Lane Anderson, "Thwarted Ambitions"; [22-24] blank
• Paper Size: 19.5 l x 11.4 w
• Lines per page: variable
• Cover: Of stiff tan paper
• Front: THWARTED | AMBITIONS | [drawing of cow]
• Back: blank
• Note: By 1935 Robert Lane Anderson was operating the newspapers and

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  printshop that his father had bought in Marion, Virginia, in 1927. No first edition ever existed.

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• AN ART COMMENTARY ON LYNCHING | [picture of man and tree] | THE FUGITIVE | by John Steuart Curry | Arthur U. Newton Galleries | Eleven East Fifty-seventh Street | New York City | Galleries open 10:00 A.M. to | 5:00 P.M. daily, except Sunday | Price of Catalogue: Twenty-five cents
• Pagination: [1-8]
• Contents: [1] title page; [2-3[ [picture] and "This Lynching" by Sherwood Anderson; [3-4] "A Note" by Erskine Caldwell; [4-5] list of exhibitors and exhibits; [6] photographs of sculpture and paintings; [7] list of patrons; [8] blank
• Paper Size: 28.0 l x 20.4 w
• Lines per page: variable
• Note: This exhibit took place early in 1935. See Parnassus, 7 (March 1935), 24.

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• [woodcut of street scene] | IN OLD VIRGINIA | EXHIBITION OF WOOD BLOCKS | CHARLES W. SMITH | NOVEMBER 25 TO DECEMBER 9 | FERARGIL GALLERIES | 63 EAST 57 STREET · NEW YORK
• Pagination: [1-8]
• Contents: [1] title page; [2-3] blank; [4] "Charles W. Smith—His Work" by Sherwood Anderson; [5] exhibits; [6-7] blank; [8] exhibits
• Paper Size: 13.7 l x 10.7 w
• Lines per page: variable
• Note: This exhibition was in the fall of 1935. See "Virginian Pictures His Home and His Hills," Art Digest, 10 (15 November 1935), 21.

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• FIVE POEMS | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [design of trees] | MCMXXXIX Colophon: PRINTED AT THE QUERCUS | PRESS IN SAN MATEO | CALIFORNIA MCMXXXIX
• Pagination: | [1-8]
• Contents: [1] title page; [2] blank; [3-7] "Morning in Chicago", "Oblivion", "In the Fields", "Irene", "Man in the Road"; [8] colophon
• Paper Size: 19.1 l x 14.0 w
• Lines per page: variable
• Cover: Of stiff green paper
• Front: [blind stamped] FIVE POEMS | SHERWOOD ANDERSON
• Back: blank

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• LAURA SCHERER COPENHAVER
• Pagination: [1]
• Contents: "Laura Scherer Copenhaver"

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• Paper Size: 25.3 l x 15.1 w
• Lines per page: 20
• Note: Signed "A Friend"; this broadside was printed by the family of Sherwood Anderson's mother-in-law, Mrs. Laura Lou Scherer Copenhaver, who died in December, 1940. The eulogy was reprinted in Lutheran Woman's Work, 34 (March 1941), 2.