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<Record>587902</Record>
<Submitter>Pwendt</Submitter>
<Subject>The Golden Book of Springfield</Subject>
<Note><br>
OCLC: <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42435052">42435052</a>
-- 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"
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Price and cover image from Amazon US as of 2016-10-04 (as "January 1, 1999"), with "Look Inside" paperback ed. (as 2000):
<ul><li> 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)
<li> Table of Contents, p.v-vi, shows Preface vii, Introduction xi, novel from p3
<li> one back page, dense, about the publisher
<li> 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)
</ul>
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</Note>
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<cTitle>The Golden Book of Springfield</cTitle>
<cDate>1999-00-00</cDate>
<cArtists>Vachel Lindsay</cArtists>
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<cPage>1</cPage>
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<cTitle>Preface (The Golden Book of Springfield)</cTitle>
<cAuthors>William Furry</cAuthors>
<cDate>1999-00-00</cDate>
<cPage>vii</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<cTitle>Introduction (The Golden Book of Springfield)</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Ron Sakolsky</cAuthors>
<cDate>1999-00-00</cDate>
<cPage>xi</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>The Golden Book of Springfield</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Vachel Lindsay</cAuthors>
<cDate>1920-00-00</cDate>
<cType>INTERIORART</cType>
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