LEAVES OF GRASS,INCLUDING A FAC SIMILE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL VARIORUM READINGS OF THE POEMS & A DEPARTMENT OF GATHERED LEAVES
by WHITMAN, WALT
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Durham, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: David McKay Pub. Very Good. 1900 verso date. Original ed. HARDCOVER. 6X8"paper cover. VERY GOOD Condition Green Clothbnd. ffep name in attractive hand "R E Ewell" ..Minimal wear to spine ends..Has occasional erase worthy pencil lines in white margins near some poems. ; ..Bright GOLD spine & cover titles with black borders and decorative wheat designs on quite dark green cloth hard covers. ; 496+X=506pg pages; Gold spine & cover titles on Dark Green Cloth hard covers. Gilt top edge, Rough cut foredge .. .. ..COULD BE AN ATTRACTIVE GIFT BOOK, as it has both bright titles & clean covers, and decorative features. ...has several fold out facsimily pages of original WHITMAN WRITING. ..Sample of Whitmans signature at bottom of frontis photo to Davod McCay who was "Walt Whitman's Publisher"...****Book text has many notes about changes made by author to various lines of text over several editions.. *** .
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- Bookseller
- Wonderful Books by Mail
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130199
- Title
- LEAVES OF GRASS,INCLUDING A FAC SIMILE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL VARIORUM READINGS OF THE POEMS & A DEPARTMENT OF GATHERED LEAVES
- Author
- WHITMAN, WALT
- Illustrator
- SEVERAL GLOSSY PHOTOS IN TEXT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Original ed
- Publisher
- David McKay Pub
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1900 verso date
- Keywords
- Poems, Poetry, Poem, American Poet, Biography, Homosexual, Autobiography, Auto Biography
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