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  • ROOTABAGA PIGEONS
    CARL SANDBURG ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
    Joyous, humorous, poetic, and always uniquely American, Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories are an important part of our children's literary legacy. In inimitable prose, Sandburg created Rootabaga Country-where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs have bibs on, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind-and populated it with baby balloon pic...

    $39.70

  • ROOTABAGA STORIES
    CARL SANDBURG ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
    Joyous, humorous, poetic, and always uniquely American, Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories are an important part of our children's literary legacy. In inimitable prose, Sandburg created Rootabaga Country-where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs have bibs on, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind-and populated it with baby balloon pic...

    $39.70

  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN
    CARL SANDBURG
    This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers "a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us" ( New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both...

    $85.00

  • THE SANDBURG TREASURY
    CARL SANDBURG
    This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet's complete works for children—with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg. As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children's literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to A...

    $149.00

  • THE PEOPLE, YES
    CARL SANDBURG
    The acclaimed epic prose-poem from one of America's greatest poets and the three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. As Irish poet Padraic Colum said, "The fine thing about The People, Yes is that it is indubitable speech. Here is a man speaking, a man who knows all sorts and co...

    $229.00

  • ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS
    CARL SANDBURG
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.   Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding hi...

    $329.00

  • STORM OVER THE LAND
    CARL SANDBURG
    Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps.   Drawn from Carl Sandburg's magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States, bringing the author's trademark clarity and vivid style to this dark and dramatic pe...

    $279.00

  • HARVEST POEMS
    CARL SANDBURG
    The great American poet's essential collection spanning fifty years of verse—with an introduction by Mark Van Doren. With major contributions in the realms of journalism, biography and children's fiction, Carl Sandburg was a luminary of twentieth-century American literature. But he was first a foremost a poet who transformed the diversity of his experience into powerfully vivid...

    $119.00

  • THE CHICAGO RACE RIOTS
    CARL SANDBURG
    This classic volume of reportage by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and journalist examines the racial tensions that erupted in the Red Summer of 1919. In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago's public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off...

    $119.00

  • HONEY AND SALT
    CARL SANDBURG
    A collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet with "a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).   Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet—upon his death, President Lyndon B. Johnson said "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than ...

    $169.00