My first visit to the Atchison Public Library was fruitful. I got a little carried away. But this is too exciting. My finds, in no particular order:
“Songs of Hiawatha” by Henry W. Longfellow – copyright 1902!! The pages are all vignetted from age.
“Many Many Moons” by Lew Sarett – description: Poems of the Indians and of the Northwoods in Which They Live.. I picked this randomly (I liked the title) and lo and behold, the introduction was written by Carl Sandburg. The part that got me before I read any more: “To my wife MARGARET this book is dedicated”…
“Cornhuskers” by Carl Sandburg (First edition – Copyright 1918!)
“The Wayward Bus” by John Steinbeck
“There’s Always Another Windmill” by Ogden Nash
“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot and illustrated by Edward Gorey (!)
“Smoke and Steel” by Carl Sandburg (First edition – copyright 1920!)
“Southern Folk Ballads” compiled and edited by W.K. McNeil
“On The Blue Shore of Silence” by Pablo Neruda
“The Letters of Carl Sandburg” edited by Herbert Mitgang
I am in Geek Heaven.