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The triumph of the egg : a book of impressions from American life in tales and poems / by Sherwood Anderson, in clay by Tennessee Mitchell, photographs by Eugene Hutchinson.

Accession number
PML 184008
Creator
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
Published
New York : B.W. Huebsch, Inc., c1921.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
C. Morris bookplate on front endpaper; housed in a brown cloth slipcase.
Description
269 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Top inscription in ink on flyleaf: Andy, If you were asked to write a piece of selling copy of, say 50 to 100 words on the essentials of modern literature, art and music, what would it be? CM ; author's inscription in ink below on flyleaf: Dear Morris - From the American angle - to be unafraid to face the essential ugliness of modern life and yet to make yourself sensitive to the beauties in the midst of ugliness - then to express those beauties in a rhythm that will fit modern life. [signed] Sherwood Anderson.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Black cloth with orange decoration and dust jacket.
Classification
Department