Edited Charles Wisner Barrell (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Charles Wisner Barrell, Jersey City, N.J., 1905
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA
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Pictorial wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 3 very uncommon examples --in fact the first 3 issues-- of "The Open Road: A Saunterer's Chronicle", a rare 1905 literary magazine affirming --and very likely naming itself after-- Walt Whitman's 1855 "Song of the Open Road" (from "Leaves of Grass"). Intended as a bi-month…ly publication and edited (and probably published) by Charles Wisner Barrell, sometimes editor of "Vagabondia" and an early specialist in the Ashcan School. We see no evidence that any more than 3 issues were published and we note that no copies can be found in the virtual world, including no holdings in WorldCat. These 3 issues have held up very nicely -- each is clean and sharp in its handsewn pictorial wrappers. The 3 issues are all 16mos and are housed in a handmade, hand-titled cardboard chemise, with the name and address label of Charles Wisner Barrell himself (suggesting these were the editor's/publisher's copies?) above the title. Vol. 2 features "John Burroughs on Slabsides" and Vol. 3 features "A Word on Forestry".
