{"product_id":"collected-poems-signed-limited-edition","title":"Collected Poems [Signed Limited Edition]","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon ; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpus 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lindsay, Vachel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46055880491266,"sku":"86674.0","price":111.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_4_09fadcc5-9dfb-459b-a12e-1a4b1a048d1d.jpg?v=1744086953","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/collected-poems-signed-limited-edition","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}