The Congo and Other Poems

New York: Macmillan, 1915.

Price: $45.00

Hardcover. Reprint with an introduction by Harriet Monroe, editor of "Poetry". Very good minus with front hinge cracked and half-title page loose, newspaper clippings glued inside covers and on endpapers, a pamphlet by John P. Snigg glued on to one of the rear endpapers, corners and spine ends lightly worn and bumped with an inscription on the half-title page "To the Vachel Lindsay Association from Elizabeth B. Ide",. Elizabeth B. Ide was a friend of the author and she and her husband Frank are acknowledged in the front of "A Handy Guide of Beggars". Elizabeth B. Ide was also a distant relative of Mary Todd Lincoln. A letter is tipped-in to Mrs. Ide from Ralph L. Schroeder.

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Item #276736 The Congo and Other Poems. Vachel LINDSAY.

Vachel Lindsay
birth name: Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
born: 11/10/1879
died: 12/5/1931
nationality: USA

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American poet who - in an attempt to revive poetry as an oral art form of the common people - wrote and read to audiences compositions with powerful rhythms that had an immediate appeal. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore