The Main Stem

New York: Vanguard Press. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, a little deterioration to cloth along spine, upper right corner of front cover bumped, non-authorial gift inscription on front endpaper]. Something of a precursor to "On the Road," this novelized version of the author's experiences as an itinerant laborer in 1918 and 1919 relates the hoboing adventures of himself and his pal "Slim," a young socialist, as they roam around the eastern half of the U.S., finding work wherever they can. .