Vachel Lindsay [Nicholas Vachel Lindsay] — Going-to-the-Sun
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first edition of Nicholas Lindsay Vachel's charmingly illustrated volume of poetry. The first edition of this work, flat signed by the author to the front free endpaper.With vignette illustrations throughout from the author himself.Vachel Lindsay was an American poet and is considered a founder of modern 'singing poetry', as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted, rather than read. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Head of front hinge a touch strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Vachel Lindsay. Very Good .
