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Publication: The Golden Book of Springfield

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  • Publication: The Golden Book of SpringfieldPublication Record # 587902
  • Author: Vachel Lindsay
  • Date: 1999-00-00
  • ISBN: 0-88286-243-X [978-0-88286-243-9]
  • Publisher: Charles H. Kerr & Company
  • Pub. Series: Lost Utopias
  • Price:
    $38.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: cxviii+329
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Golden Book of Springfield by Vachel Lindsay
  • Notes: OCLC 42435052: -- ISBN 088286243X 0882862421 (hc and tp formats; cover image is that Amazon shows for 2000 paperback) -- "Responsibility: Vachel Lindsay ; with drawings by the author ; introduction by Ron Sakolsky ; preface by William Furry" Price and cover image from Amazon US as of 2016-10-04 (as "January 1, 1999"), with "Look Inside" paperback ed. (as 2000):
    • title page: all elements quoted above; then "Lost Utopias Series", outline version of publisher logo, and "Chicago // Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company // 1999" (half-title page styles logo, publisher, and series differently)
    • Table of Contents, p.v-vi, shows Preface vii, Introduction xi, novel from p3
    • one back page, dense, about the publisher
    • back cover, dense, includes "Ron Sakolsky has been studying the life of Vachel Lindsay since he moved to the Springfield area in the early 1970s." (no price)
    Copyright page (t.p. verso) comprises mainly Dedication and Acknowledgments by Sakolsky; A Note on the Illustrations credits some artwork that is not by Lindsay. Introduction written by Sakolsky, including its bibliography, spans p.xi-cxvi (106 pages) Material by Lindsay begins p.cxvii: -- cxvii, "Explanation of the Map of the Universe // (Vachel Lindsay, 1904)", entirely a quotation from a 1986 publication -- cxviii, "A Map of the Universe Issued in 1909. This Map is One Beginning of the Golden Book of Springfield." (full-page illustration) -- [1], The Golden Book of Springfield, The Prognosticator's Club (membership list; so to speak, the list of characters) -- [2], another illustration -- 3, Chapter One
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  • Bibliographic Comments: View Publication comment (THGLDNBKFS1999)
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