Collected Poems [Signed Limited Edition]

London ; New York: Macmillan, 1923. Small quarto rust-red quarter cloth and pale green-grey paper-backed boards; xv, 390 pages; 21 cm. Small pale (oil?) stain to front board, approx. one quarter-inch square; board corners mildly chafed thus exposing cardboard beneath; else a very tight and clean copy. Very good to very good(+). Partly unopened. . Hardcover.

Opus of a forgotten pioneer of American spoken word, wandering bard-performance artist and supporter of Black Americans. Exemplar 382 of a stated limitation of 400 copies. Signed by Lindsay. Despondent over poor health and financial struggles, Linsday killed himself at the age of 52, in 1931, by drinking Lysol. A progenitor of modern American "singing poetry". American poetry -- early 20th century. Contents: Adventures while singing these songs -- Nightingales -- Orations, college war-cries, and Olympic games -- Litany of the heroes -- Verses of an especially incriptional character -- Moon-poems -- Incense, and praise, and whim, and glory -- Runes of the road -- Home town -- Politics.