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First printing of "one of the first children's books to feature South American folktales from indigenous peoples" (Library of Congress) - inscribed by multiple-Pulitzer-winner Carl Sandburg, to whom the book is dedicated. Charles J. Finger, an eccentric socialist, adventurer, railway man, and sometimes-folklorist, was "encouraged and helped" early in his writing career by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Carl Sandburg (Library of Congress). In thanks for his his guidance, Finger dedicated to Sandburg what would become his "most famous" book, the winner of the 1925 Newbery Medal TALES FROM SILVER LANDS (Library of Congress). The collection features South and Central American folk tales, beautifully illustrated. Sandburg inscribed this copy to Roger Barrett, son of eminent Abraham Lincoln collector Oliver R. Barrett; the elder Barrett was Sandburg's friend, lawyer, and collaborator. An attractive work with a provenance that illuminates a network of scholars. 9'' x 7''. Original black cloth binding with yellow stamping. Yellow pictorial endpapers of various mythological figures. Yellow, blue and green woodcut frontispiece with nine full-page yellow, blue, and green woodcuts and numerous smaller black-and-white woodcuts. [12], 226 pages. Inscribed to "Roger Barrett / - a bad, bad book / worth reading - Carl Sandburg." Binding with a touch of bumping to corners and spine ends, one tiny knock to lower board; a bit of a lean. Interior clean and bright.

Doubleday Page & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Signed. Hardcover with scarce original DJ, Signed by the Author Stated First Edition 1924 Doubleday Page & Company 225 pages. Very Good, in a Fair DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to black cloth boards with yellow titles - corners bumped (one corner is worn). Major shelf/edge wear, chipping (large chip missing from bottom of spine) and several closed tears to original and scarce DJ - now in mylar. On the page after the half-title page is a gift bookplate (to (blank) With Greetings and Best Wishes of (authors signature). No other writing in book - all pages are clean and unmarked. Yellow, blue and green woodcut DJ panel with nine full-page yellow, blue, and green woodcuts and numerous smaller black-and-white woodcuts, all by Paul Honore. 1925 Newberry medal winner, a collection of South American folk tales and legends and also one of the first children's books to feature South American folktales from indigenous peoples. From Wikipedia - [Charles Joseph Finger (December 25, 1869 – January 7, 1941) was a British born American writer. Finger was born in Willesden, England, and educated at King's College London. He had a strong literary and musical formation, and was quite active in the Fabian (Socialist) movement. Finger was a keen disciple of Walt Whitman. As a youth and young man he reveled in the homosociality of the Regent Street Polytechnic created by Quintin Hogg, and as a bisexual, throughout his life he sought to create communities of like-minded readers.] In the book Shared Secrets, Elizabeth Findley Shores relates Finger’s untold story, exploring the secrets that connected the author to an international community of twentieth-century queer literati. Finger was also employed from 1936 through 1938 as an editor of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) guidebook, Arkansas: A Guide to the State. A very handsome scarce and signed First Edition in a respectable DJ. LOC SS-FB-02