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SANDBURG, CARL.
11 June 2008, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$540 inc. premium
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Typed Manuscript Signed (“Carl Sandburg”), 1 p, 4to, n.p., n.d., titled “The Triumph of the Yellow Paper Horse,” with autograph inscription at lower margin, leaf mildly thumbed; together with engraved portrait of Sandburg, 8 by 11 inches, inscribed by Sandburg at lower mount: “Roger—we can choose our friends but we take whatever face we get / Carl Sandburg”; additionally inscribed by the artist: “This is the face I got while Carl was hard at work on The Prairie Years / Otto J. Schneider.” Mild toning and thumbing to sheet.
Sandburg gifts the manuscript of the prose poem, “The Triumph of the Yellow Paper Horse,” with this inscription: ““Private and confidential till publication after revisions for Neil & Roger [Barrett].” The poem vividly describes the antics of celestial figures including two blue moons and the yellow paper horse of the title. The piece does not appear in the collected works, and may be unpublished, although another draft is present in the Asheville section of the Sandburg Archives at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana.
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Sandburg gifts the manuscript of the prose poem, “The Triumph of the Yellow Paper Horse,” with this inscription: ““Private and confidential till publication after revisions for Neil & Roger [Barrett].” The poem vividly describes the antics of celestial figures including two blue moons and the yellow paper horse of the title. The piece does not appear in the collected works, and may be unpublished, although another draft is present in the Asheville section of the Sandburg Archives at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana.
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