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Doubleday Page & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Signed. Hardcover with scarce original DJ, Signed by the Author Stated First Edition 1924 Doubleday Page & Company 225 pages. Very Good, in a Fair DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to black cloth boards with yellow titles - corners bumped (one corner is worn). Major shelf/edge wear, chipping (large chip missing from bottom of spine) and several closed tears to original and scarce DJ - now in mylar. On the page after the half-title page is a gift bookplate (to (blank) With Greetings and Best Wishes of (authors signature). No other writing in book - all pages are clean and unmarked. Yellow, blue and green woodcut DJ panel with nine full-page yellow, blue, and green woodcuts and numerous smaller black-and-white woodcuts, all by Paul Honore. 1925 Newberry medal winner, a collection of South American folk tales and legends and also one of the first children's books to feature South American folktales from indigenous… Read More

Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company, 1924. First edition. Very good plus.. First printing of "one of the first children's books to feature South American folktales from indigenous peoples" (Library of Congress) - inscribed by multiple-Pulitzer-winner Carl Sandburg, to whom the book is dedicated. Charles J. Finger, an eccentric socialist, adventurer, railway man, and sometimes-folklorist, was "encouraged and helped" early in his writing career by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Carl Sandburg (Library of Congress). In thanks for his his guidance, Finger dedicated to Sandburg what would become his "most famous" book, the winner of the 1925 Newbery Medal TALES FROM SILVER LANDS (Library of Congress). The collection features South and Central American folk tales, beautifully illustrated. Sandburg inscribed this copy to Roger Barrett, son of eminent Abraham Lincoln collector Oliver R. Barrett; the elder Barrett was Sandburg's friend, lawyer, and collaborator. An attractive work with a… Read More