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Voyages : Poems by Walt Whitman
by Whitman, Walt; Hopkins, Lee Bennett [editor]
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0152944958
- ISBN 13
- 9780152944957
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound with dark green cloth spine lettered in gold and in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 73 pages. Containing 53 poems and selections from poems divided into five major sections by anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins and illustrated with evocative vignette and full page black and white drawings by Charles Mikolaycak. Stated first edition, first printing with full letter line. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, like new book. Dust-jacket shows several very small nicks, now tape repaired on verso. As new in a near fine dust-jacket. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020365
- Title
- Voyages : Poems by Walt Whitman
- Author
- Whitman, Walt; Hopkins, Lee Bennett [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0152944958
- ISBN 13
- 9780152944957
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Poetry, Walt Whitman
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Letter line
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Fine
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