Letters to Carl Sandburg: After Reading His Autobiography 'Always the Young Strangers' Published on His 75th Birthday January 6, 1953

New York: Joseph Halles Schaffner, 1968. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 0x0x0. Limited edition, one of 450 copies. Includes plain paper jacket, jacket edges rubbed. Bottom edge of board rubbed. 1968 Large Hardcover. 43 pp. Carl Sandburg, (born Jan. 6, 1878, Galesburg, Ill., U.S.—died July 22, 1967, Flat Rock, N.C.), American poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist. From the age of 11, Sandburg worked in various occupations—as a barbershop porter, a milk truck driver, a brickyard hand, and a harvester in the Kansas wheat fields. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, he enlisted in the 6th Illinois Infantry. These early years he later described in his autobiography Always the Young Strangers (1953). - Britannica. This book is a sort of "shared memory", being a lengthy letter to Sandburg in which the author, John Conrad Weigel, recounts his own boyhood memories which were apparently remarkably like Sandburg's. Mr. Weigel recounts the hard times his family went through, before social programs and when hard work and self-reliance were cherished ideals; when chickens were hatched beneath the stove, mattresses were made from corn husks, and "if underwear gave out, flour sacks filled the bill". - Swans Fine Books