Going to the Sun

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Cloth beautifully restored at the spine, gilt lettering on the spine is dull, else a near fine copy in an attractive, internally repaired, good dustwrapper with some loss at the crown, that has been supplied to this copy. Inscribed by the author: "My very good wishes to my lifetime, lifelong friend Marjorie S. Logan, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay – December 25, 1923." Logan was the head of the Fine Arts Department at Milwaukee-Downer College. A significant association copy.

Item #280757

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Item #280757 Going to the Sun. 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