![Item #58896 Rhymes to be traded for bread being new verses by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Springfield, Illinois, June, 1912. Printed expressly as a substitute for money [drop title]. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/58896_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630421702)
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Rhymes to be traded for bread being new verses by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Springfield, Illinois, June, 1912. Printed expressly as a substitute for money [drop title]
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 exception of his pamphlets. His pamphlet also advertises "sermons" to be preached on request on the gospel of the Hearth, of voluntary poverty, and the holiness of beauty. Item #58896
Price: $500.00
