Language: English
Published by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc., New York, 1936
Seller: Albion Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "A sheaf of recently discovered newspaper articles by the author of Leaves of Grass". #502 of 750 copies. Green buckram with gilt lettering. Trace wear, lightly sunned spine, and barely bumped spine ends and corners. Yellow jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has moderate edgewear, scuffing, rubbing and soil; numerous small chips/tears <1"; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. No prev owner names or stamps. Not ex-library. Indexed. 257 pp.
Published by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc, NY, 1936
Seller: Blue Whale Books, ABAA, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Green cloth, gilt. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. #401 of 750 copies. Endpaper gutters tanned, small faint spot foredge; jacket Fine in appearance but with tape reinforcements underneath at head and foot and portions of flap creases.No markings. BAL 21475A; Myerson A 32.I.a1, Jacket B.
Published by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, New York, 1936
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936 [but 1944?]. First Edition, First Issue, Limited to 750 copies of which this is no. 245. Octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket lettered in red; xiii,[3],257pp.; portrait frontispiece & seven (7) leaves of plates. Very minor wear to jacket extremities, corners tapped, faint offsetting to endpapers, else a Very Good, fresh and sound copy. The first collected appearance of local newspaper articles and sketches composed in the 1850s and 1860s while Whitman was revising "Leaves of Grass." Though the title page date provided is 1936, the advertisement on rear jacket panel to "Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps" indicates this was actually published sometime around 1944. BAL 21475.