The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems.

New York. The Macmillan Co., 1917. First Edition. Small 8vo. Bound in pictorial gilt decorated cloth.

This copy bares a lengthy inscription by Lindsay in bold ink to the front free endsheet. It also presents a nine lined poem, "Columbus" (1910), penned neatly in manuscript to front pastedown. This Poem was included in his larger poem "The Heroes of Time"  which appeared in a twelve page pamphlet celebrating Abraham Lincoln for a "Banquet given on the One Hundred and First Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, by the Lincoln Centennial Association, February the Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and Ten [at] the St. Nicholas Hotel, Springfield."

Covers mildly rubbed with the spine a bit more so, resulting in dulling of spine decoration. Short marginal tear to half title. A Near Fine copy bearing an original poem in holograph by one of the 20th century's most noted American poets.

Item #7833

Price: $1,500.00

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