[Rarebooks] FS: MARCHING MEN: Sherwood Anderson INSCRIBED to Babs

[Charles Agvent]

ANDERSON, Sherwood. MARCHING MEN. New York: John Lane Company, 1917. 
First Edition. A fine association copy of Sherwood Anderson's second 
book INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Marietta 
Finley/With Regards and Good/Wishes/Sherwood Anderson." Marietta "Babs" 
Finley was a close friend of Anderson's who kept up a correspondence 
with him that was published in 1985 as LETTERS TO BAB: SHERWOOD ANDERSON 
TO MARIETTA D. FINLEY, 1916-33. In a letter to William Sutton in 1962, 
Finley commented that Anderson habitually left carbon copies of 
WINESBURG stories with her when he visited her in Indianapolis: "These I 
kept and once, I recall, he was camping out in the Adirondacks at 
Chateaugay and there was a fire in his tent. He lost some of the 
WINESBURG stories and asked me to send the copies I had." A silver print 
photograph of a fairly young Anderson is partly taped at the corners to 
the front pastedown. Some tape on the front pastedown and skimming to 
the rear endpaper from the removal of a clipping; the front hinge is 
cracked with the cover a little loose. The spine is dull but readable. 
About Very Good. (#016403)        $500.00

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