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Rootabaga Stories
by Sandburg, Carl
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Later Printing. Inscribed by Sandburg on the front endpaper to his friends Len and Olga Steckler. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.25), toned at the spine and edges, tape at the head of the spine, a chip at the top of the front panel. Red buckram, rubbed at the edges, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An omnibus edition of Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories with their original illustrations by the Petershams. In his inscription, Sandburg references the inscribees' similarity to "The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7460
- Title
- Rootabaga Stories
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Stories, Children's, Humor, Illustrated, Chicago, Midwest, 20th Century Literature, American Literature, Modern Literature
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Buckram
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- Inscribed
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
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