The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg. Edited by Margaret Sandburg.
first edition
[1987] · Urbana
by Sanburg, Margaret; Editor. [Steichen, Lilian and Carl Sandburg].
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1987]. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters,, xiv, 273 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. These letters, exchanged between the famed Illinois poet Carl Sandburg and his future wife, Lilian Steichen, were written during the first six months of 1908. The correspondence traces the budding relationship from the pair’s first meeting to their June wedding...The letters of Stiechen and Sandburg reveal their deep love for one another as well as their shared dedication to socialism. (Inventory #: 17632scs)