Carl Sandburg William E Bohn (3 results)

First printing (as stated upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xiv, 285 pages. Hardcover; H 21.5cm x L 14.25cm. White dust jacket lightly soiled, shallow chipping at spine and flap fold ends, nicks at panel edges, slender staining along rear panel's flap edge, top corner of front flap is price-clipped. Light yellow cloth. Toning to edges and endpapers; short swath of blue-green marker on top edge; past owner's four line ink note on front pastedown mostly hidden underneath dj's front flap. A very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket with Bohn's two-line inscription upon the front free endpaper: "With greetings from | the author - William E. Bohn." With a Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Dust jacket's front panel provides a summarizing subtitle: "The colorful reminiscences of a very old man, born in the Midwest 85 years ago - a man who remembers President Garfield, made a speech to President McKinley, and was a friend of Eugene Debs and 'Fighting Bob' La Follette." Bohn served as editor of "The New Leader" beginning in 1941. Published in New York, "The New Leader" started as a weekly newspaper in 1924 but switched to a monthly magazine format in May 1950 and bi-monthly in 2000 till eventually succumbing to an online-only publication in 2006.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Foreword by Sandburg. The colorful reminiscences of a Midwesterner who was a friend of Eugene Debs and "Fighting Bob" LaFollette, and taught English at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In a Mylar jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with some small chips out of the extremities.