Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread

Springfield, IL: The Author, 1912.

Price: $600.00

Softcover. First edition. Stapled self-wrappers. [16]pp. Corners rounded as issued, slight oxidation of the staples, a fine copy. Author and influential anthologist Edward J. O'Brien's copy with his small, neat ownership signature. A very nice copy of this pamphlet printed on cheap newsprint stock, one of the many productions traded by the poet for room and board while traveling the countryside.

Item #29231

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Item #29231 Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread. Nicholas 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