When City of Discontent was first published, it bore the subtitle "An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that state, and that nation." But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's Lincoln , not so much a biography as a poetic interpretation of the life of one of the state's leading poets of the first half of the twentieth century.
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When City of Discontent was first published, it bore the subtitle "An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that state, and that nation." But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's Lincoln , not so much a biography as a poetic interpretation of the life of one of the state's leading poets of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Add this copy of City of Discontent (Prairie State Books) to cart. $15.16, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by University of Illinois Press.
Add this copy of City of Discontent to cart. $32.00, good condition, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1952 by Bobbs-Merrill.
Add this copy of City of Discontent to cart. $90.94, good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1952 by Bobbs Merrill.
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Very good in a very good dust jacket. Signed. Jacket spine ends taped from inside. Small crease to upper front flap. Staining along outside of spine. Wear to front and rear end folds.; Signed.; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of City of Discontent to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Eat My Words rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1952 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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Good. Stated first edition. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged, but endpages darker and front pastedown has stain. Green cloth cover with a little wear to edges, but otherwise okay. No dustjacket.
Add this copy of City of Discontent Format: Paperback to cart. $35.75, new condition, Sold by indoo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Avenel, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by University of Illinois Press.
Add this copy of City of Discontent to cart. $37.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1952 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. 403pp. Light toning on endpapers, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with foxing on both sides, and tiny chips and tears at the spine ends. The author's second book, a biography of Vachel Lindsay.
Add this copy of City of Discontent (Prairie State Books) to cart. $46.83, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by University of Illinois Press.
