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Carl Sandburg. Complete Poems. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1950). 8vo. First edition SIGNED by Sandburg. Subtle dampstaining to edges of some leaves, and to top edge of text block. Dust jacket front panel, flaps, and rear panel all detached. D.j. rear panel and d.j. spine largely attached. Chipping to edges of d.j. VG/fair.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo; blue spine with gilt text; G; no jacket; cloth has noticeable damp staining to front, as is; other slight exterior wear; few smudges to exterior; boards sturdy; minor rubbing to edges; text block edges have slight tone; exterior head edge shows damp staining; deckled fore edge; illustrated; intact binding; damp stain residue to first few pages to fore edge, as is; light ink to table of contents and p 3; pp 676; inscribed by Carl Sandburg. 1345652. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Sandburg, Carl. Complete Poems. Harcourt Brace, 1950.
Price: US$149.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Solid edge worn copy of the stated "First Edition" lacking the jacket and signed on front free end page by Sandburg.
Seller: Abyssbooks, Crestone, CO, U.S.A.
Carl Sandburg. Complete Poems [Signed]. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Later printing. Signed by Carl Sandburg without inscription at front free endpapers. Octavo. 676 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt; yellow topstain. Unclipped dust jacket scuffed and worn with chipping along edges and a few strips of tape mending to recto and verso. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Sandburg, Carl. Complete Poems. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Early Printing. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Sandburg to his friends Olga and Len Steckler. Fine in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($7.50), flaps separated, chipped and with some tears and creases throughout. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The Pulitzer Prize-winning collection from one of America's most celebrated poets.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Sandburg, Carl. Complete Poems. Harcourt Brace, 1950.
Price: US$286.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: About the book: Hardcover with price-clipped jacket. Signed First Edition (Stated on Copyright Page) Jacket is from a later printing (1965) Book is in very nice condition with mild wear. Jacket is price-clipped with moderate wear and chipping. Carl Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for this book. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are.
Seller: The Poet's Pulpit, Oakville, ON, Canada
Sandburg, Carl.. Complete Poems.. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing. One of an unknown number of trade copies with tipped-in leaf before the half-title page, SIGNED by Sandburg (no inscription). This copy is Very Good or better with mild darkening to spine panel, and lower front board tip is scuffed. In a Fine later issue dustwrapper, mentioning three subsequent titles on rear flap. 676pp. Three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Sandburg was an American institution all by himself, a working-class foil to figures such as Wallace Stevens or T.S. Eliot. Q11140
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Sandburg, Carl. Complete Poems. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: First edition signed by Sandburg on the front blank is near fine with touch of rubbing at cover edges, hint of soiling at page edges and some other very light trace wear, in very good price-clipped dust jacket that shows some mild rubbing and soil along with edge wear that includes short closed tears and tiny open chipping. 676 pages. Remains an attractive copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of the author's work that has been collected from six earlier volumes ".with seventy-four poems not hitherto collected." Signed.
Seller: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, U.S.A.
SANDBURG, CARL. COMPLETE POEMS [SIGNED]. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First Edition. SIGNED BY CARL SANDBURG on front flyleaf with no inscription or personalization. Dark blue cloth boards with blind embossed author's signature on front cover, gilt titled spine. xxix, 676 pages. The definitive collection of Sandburg's poetry, with over 800 poems. Near fine to fine with minor bump to bottom corner and slightest of rubbing to extremities. Small bookstore label from The Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago on bottom of rear pastedown. Firmly bound with no markings.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Carl Sandburg. Complete Poems. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Stated First Edition, First Printing. 6.25 x 9.5in. xxix. 676pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed by the author without inscription on the second blank endpaper. Also the former copy of Helga Sandburg, the beloved daughter of the author, his occasional editor, and the subject of his poem "Helga," with her bookplate at the front paste-down. A lovely association copy. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows marginals shelf rubbing of the extremities, one corner lightly tapped, a hint of toning at the gutter of the endpapers; in all other respects remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows some creasing and marginal instances of loss along the extremities, back panel with a spot of discoloration, price-clipped, otherwise remains bright and distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
SANDBURG, Carl.. Complete Poems.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: xxix, 676 pp. 8vo, original blue cloth. First edition. Very light use to extremities; otherwise very nice. Inscribed by Carl Sandburg on the front free endpaper (signed "Carl").
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.