ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). On the Cultivation of Christmas Trees. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). On the Cultivation of Christmas Trees. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
8vo. Illustrated. Original publisher's decorated paper-covered boards. Provenance: Ralph (gift inscription from Carl Sandburg, see below).
FIRST EDITION, with a LENGTHY INSCRIPTION FROM CARL SANDBURG: "Dear Ralph - It started at $1.25 & this one & many companions Bloody Mary help us $.69 -- the god darn anti-democracy Anglo-Catholic monarchist who has a notion he is an English citizen when he is merely one more pathetic British subject -- the greatest English poet ever born in New England & raised in St. Louis pax vobiscum & requiescatur pace: Charles Augustus Sandburgiam."
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ELIOT, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965). On the Cultivation of Christmas Trees. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
8vo. Illustrated. Original publisher's decorated paper-covered boards. Provenance: Ralph (gift inscription from Carl Sandburg, see below).
FIRST EDITION, with a LENGTHY INSCRIPTION FROM CARL SANDBURG: "Dear Ralph - It started at $1.25 & this one & many companions Bloody Mary help us $.69 -- the god darn anti-democracy Anglo-Catholic monarchist who has a notion he is an English citizen when he is merely one more pathetic British subject -- the greatest English poet ever born in New England & raised in St. Louis pax vobiscum & requiescatur pace: Charles Augustus Sandburgiam."
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