The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language

New York: Macmillan, 1920.

Price: $250.00

Hardcover. First edition. Lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, still fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. This copy nicely Inscribed on the front fly in the year of publication: "With every good wish to Mabel Neer Jones from Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. Springfield, Illinois. Dec. 2, 1920." In addition, on the front pastedown, the poet has penned a nine-line poem and initialed it at the conclusion.

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Item #56411 The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language. Vachel LINDSAY.
The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language
The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language
The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language
The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language

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