The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg
by Sandburg, Margaret, Editor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0252013867
- ISBN 13
- 9780252013867
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: University of Illinois Press, 1987. First edition, first printing, 1987. Cocoa brown cloth with gilt on brown spine lettering, tan speckled endpapers, 272 with extensive index, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition, looks and feels new and unread, with only a thumbprint atop front free endpaper, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not corner clipped and is in good condition, with some rubbing to its extreme edges and a lightly faded spine. Traces the budding relationship between poet and dream girl from the pair's first meeting until their wedding. Thoughtfully edited by their daughter, Margaret, it is a record of the 1908 long distance relationship of two dedicated intellectuals, including 134 letters. . First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021832
- Title
- The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg
- Author
- Sandburg, Margaret, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0252013867
- ISBN 13
- 9780252013867
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- PROGRESSIVISM SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY SANDBURG CARL 1878 1967 LILIAN STEICHEN LOVE LETTERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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