Poor White (The Modern Library, No. 115)

New York: The Modern Library, 1926. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 0x0x0. 1926 first thus, Toledano 115.1, binding/jacket style 4b, 95 cent jacket price on spine, yellow Bernhard endpapers. Good in fair jacket. Jacket panels adhered to covers, loss along all jacket edges, jacket spine toned. viii, 371 pp. Includes new introduction by the author. Poor White is an American novel by Sherwood Anderson, published in 1920. An episode in the novel inspired Bertold Brecht's poem "Kohlen fur Mike" ("Coal for Mike"), published in his 1939 collected Svendborger Gedichte. It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the banks of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland of America.