Home Front Memo
by Sandburg, Carl
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Sandburg on the front endpaper to his friends Len and Olga Steckler. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), rubbed and bumped at the edges with a few small chips and closed tears. Blue buckram with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, some rippling to the photographs, clean otherwise. A collection of Sandburg's writing about World War II.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7459
- Title
- Home Front Memo
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Essays, War Correspondence, World War II, American Studies
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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