Author: SANDBURG, CARL Title: Cornhuskers
Description: NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. First edition, second state (page 3 not numbered, "Chicago Poems" advertised at $1.35). Publisher's brown printed boards. The 103 poems that form this early collection earned Sandburg the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1919. Carl August Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American writer and editor best known for poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat". Spine mildly sunned, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. x, 147, (2-adverts) pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Poetry; First Edition; Sandburg; Pulitzer Prize; Poems; Novels, Poetry & Literature Poetry
Price: US$ 500.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 14181
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