Home Front Memo [FIRST EDITION] [VINTAGE 1943]

Sandburg, Carl

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1943

About this Item

Fine condition dark blue cloth boards with beige spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page of List of Books by Carl Sandburg; Dedication; Poems; and Road to Victory: Commentary, Pictures and text. Illustrated with a rear section of black-and-white photographic plates. Very light rubbing to the upper spine edge (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the bindings is exceedingly tight and square. "This collection of pamphlets, speeches, broadcasts, newspaper columns, poems, legends, photograph texts, now assembled and made available in one carry-all volume - this is Dedicated to the life, works, and memory of Stephen Vincent Benet who knew the distinction between pure art and propaganda in the written or spoken word. He could sing to give men music, consolation, pleasure. He could intone chant or prayer pointing the need for men to act. He illustrated the code and creed of those writers who seek to widen the areas of freedom for all men, knowing that men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes. He saw that a writer's silence on living issues can in itself constitute a propaganda of conduct leading toward the deterioration or death of freedom. He wrote often hoping that men would act because of his words. He could have been Olympian, whimsical, seeking to be timeless amid bells of doom not to be put off. - from the Dedication page. Seller Inventory # 004363

Bibliographic Details

Title: Home Front Memo [FIRST EDITION] [VINTAGE ...

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York

Publication Date: 1943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition