Chicago Poems (1916 FIRST PRINTING, IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKET)

Sandburg, Carl

Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1916

About this Item

Gilt titles still legible to dark blue (or black?) cloth boards, though gilt somewhat worn to spine. Binding cloth may once have been damp at corners near spine, though there's no staining. Hinges and endpapers are clean and lovely. Copyright page states "Published April, 1916," which matches date to title page; no later dates showing. Publisher's ads dated "3'16" both at rear of text block, and to dust jacket rear panel. Said publisher's ads offer both "Chicago Poems" and "North of Boston -- 6th printing" at $1.25 net; "A Boy's Will (Mr. Frost's first volume of poetry, 2nd printing)," at 75 cents net. (Let's order several!) The "good-plus" original dust jacket is complete and unsophisticated (no tape, no repairs, with a half-inch closed tear to top of front panel.) Jacket priced $1.35 to spine. Tidemark to dust jacket spine where it was once damp. In their "Collected Books / The Guide to Values / 1998 Edition," Allen and Patricia Ahearn listed this book at $1,000 in dustwrapper ($300 without dustwrapper.) As a sensible measure of inflation over those 24 years, the melt value of silver bullion in 1998 was $7 per ounce; at this writing in early 2024 it's $25. On the other hand, bulk silver dollars from the early 20th Century will now run you $33 apiece. Includes the poem "Chicago -- Hog Butcher for the World, / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat . . ." as well as "The fog comes / on little cat feet . . ." Now reduced from $1,050.

Seller Inventory # 010193

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chicago Poems (1916 FIRST PRINTING, IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKET)
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1916
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rare Books
  • Americana
  • Poetry