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GOOD MORNING AMERICA.
(New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928). 220 x 155 mm. (8 5/8 x 6 1/8"). 3 p.l., x, 251, [1] pp., [1] leaf. No. 540 of 811 copies.
Publisher's red cloth with gold border and diamond design on covers, smooth spine with gilt lettering. UNOPENED. Housed in a custom red cloth folding case, spine with red morocco label with gilt lettering. With color title vignette, each section with a small color illustration. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. Photocopied David L. O'Neal Antiquarian Booksellers invoice (for $200) dated March 1998 laid in at front. Gold flaking at one spot on front cover (as often), otherwise the binding in very fine condition and the unread contents pristine.
From the library of two distinguished American poets, this is an especially appealing signed and unopened copy of Carl Sandburg's homegrown classic. In "Good Morning, America," Sandburg (1878-1967) writes to his native land, his words travelling across the vast landscapes he so loved, from the "marching, hungry mountains" to "where the fields and the timber lines meet / in belts of brown gold hazes" to the waves that "roll ashen gray," touching on them and their residents with alternating humor, bitterness, and reverence. As the invoice with the book indicates, our copy is from the library of Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has received various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center. (ST20338-118)
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