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Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts
by Walt Whitman; Clifton Furness, ed
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very Good. First printing. Very Good. This edition is limited to 750 copies and the type has been distributed. Unnumbered copy. Quarter cloth leather spine with grey paper boards. Corners wearing, leather missing 1/8" at head of spine. Leather has a long thin indentation on front. Raised bands. Pp. 1-10 have small, uniform chip on lower right. Cream endpapers. Pages clean and sound. Thick paper. Embossed English department stamp, no other markings, not ex-library. 265 pp. including notes. Small quarto, 8 x 11 inches tall. Includes fascimiles of Whitman's original MS and letters.
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AMCL-09
- Title
- Walt Whitman's Workshop: A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts
- Author
- Walt Whitman; Clifton Furness, ed
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- poetry, whitman, furness, poems, letters, manuscript
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Classics;
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About the Seller
Uncommon Works
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Gridley, California
About Uncommon Works
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Quarto
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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