Accession number
PML 186990
Creator
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
Published
New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1922.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
Frontispiece illustration in color with the caption, "The balloons floated and filled the sky," and 11 full-page black and white illustrations included in the pagination.
Frontispiece illustration in color with the caption, "The balloons floated and filled the sky," and 11 full-page black and white illustrations included in the pagination.
Description
230 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on flyleaf: Henry Stanton Monroe, --you, who have grown so tall, may it be a long time 'till 'em high winds blow you down -- [signed] Carl Sandburg, Chicago, Nov, 24, 1922.
Provenance
Inscribed to Henry Stanton Monroe; Carter Burden.
Binding
Publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow, with pictorial dust jacket designed by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Classification
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