MARCHING MEN

New York: John Lane Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Small rust stains below signature. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Anderson's second book with a fine SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the author on the front endpaper: "Another novel written/while I was still in man-/ufacturing, living at/Elyria, Ohio. It perhaps/should have been cast/in the form of a long/poem but that seemed/beyond me so I had to/do what I could with/prose. The book was/I am afraid very un-/successful./Sherwood Anderson/Jan 19 --1924."