signed first edition Hardcover
(1939) · New York
by SANDBURG, Carl
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1939). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing to a few pages. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappers. Original cloth in 4 volumes after the printing of 525 deluxe copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page of the first volume to an Illinois school superintendent. Illustrated with 414 halftones from photographs and 249 reproductions of cartoons, letters, and documents. (Inventory #: 021494)