Chicago Poems

Title page reads "Chicago Poems | By Carl Sandburg | New York | Henry Holt and Company | 1916." The first printing's copyright page reads "Copyright, 1916, by Henry Holt and Company" followed by the line "Published April, 1916," and carries no later-printing or reprint statement — before 1945 Holt identified its American firsts by that absence rather than by any "first edition" line, so the terminal "Published April, 1916" is the governing test