Fine Books & Manuscripts

SANDBURG, Carl (1878–1967). Typed Letter Signed (“Carl Sandburg”) to Don Russell, Connemara Farms, Flat Rock, North Carolina, 25 March 1952. One page, 12mo (171 x 165 mm), on personal stationery, with original addressed envelope. (Central fold, two tiny closed tears at ends). SANDBURG ON “THE WAR YEARS”. The author is hopeful that his book “The War Years” was of put to some use at the White House. –– [TOGETHER WITH:] Cornhuskers. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. 8vo. Publisher’s printed boards; original printed dust jacket (spine panel a little sunned, otherwise fine). FIRST EDITION, second state with $1.35 net price for Chicago Poems facing title and p. 3 unnumbered. In the SCARCE DUST JACKET. –– [ALSO:] Always the Young Stranger. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1953]. 8vo. Publisher’s dark blue buckram, printed spine label, top edge blue, decorative endpapers from photographs; original slipcase with title label (wear or toning along edges with few modern tape repairs to separation). FIRST EDITION, limited to 600 copies, this being number 488 of 500 copies for sale, SIGNED BY SANDBURG on limitation.