Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America
by Masters, Edgar Lee
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Biography of the Illinois poet by his fellow Illinois writer; they were well-acquainted, if not close friends. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing) with 'A' on copyright page. Light wear to book; flamboyant but illegible signature & more recent provenance notes on free endsheet; price-clipped jacket smudged & rubbed with some creasing & short tears to lower front panel. Text clean; ix, [5], 392 pages; index, 8 b/w plates, as called for. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0739
- Title
- Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America
- Author
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Biography, Literary Biography, Poets, Poetry, Illinois
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
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