Rhymes to be traded for bread being new verses

Name: Rhymes to be traded for bread being new verses
Price: 500 USD
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Author: Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Springfield, Illinois, June, 1912. Printed expressly as a substitute for money drop title by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Springfield, Illinois, June, 1912. Printed expressly as a substitute for money drop title by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Springfield, IL: 1912. 8vo, pp. 16 ; text in double column; self-wrappers; tiny dog ear on first leaf, else fine. Lindsay made a number of cross-country treks, bartering his self-printed collections of poetry for room and board as he went. This book was to be used in exchange for the necessities of life on a tramp-journey from the author's home town... during which he will observe the following rules. One of those rules was to have nothing to do with money, and to carry no baggage, with the

Binding: Wrappers

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