Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940
Seller: Firefly Bookstore, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Slipcase Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. Slipcase is in poor condition but still intact, corners are splitting, wear and small stains. Wear to cover, bumped corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. There is a previous owner's name on the inside. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. A very worn copy with fraying spine, book plate on first leaf, a small read mark on rear paste-down, & one illustration bound upside down. Missing slipcase. 316 pp.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1940
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 317 p., clean and unmarked within on strong paper only faintly age-toned; penciled price of $22.50 and notation "excellent illustrations" on upper corner of front end page; Former owners pictorial book plate on half t.p.many full-page ill. suitable for framing; binding firm although spine is badly abraded; green burlap boards bumped at corners. 9" x 12". Extra postage.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Daniel, Lewis C. (illustrator). First Thus. Whitman's most famous work, brilliantly illustrated with pen-and-ink & watercolor sketches by Lewis C. Daniel. In 316 pages + 9 prefatory pages by editor Christopher Morley, "An Introduction to the Leaves;" Morley also made the selections for inclusion here from Whitman's larger work & describes "art as a love letter.'' First publication in this format (First, thus), the First Printing from 1940. Oversized hardcover has green nubby-textured cloth-covered boards & is in Good+ condition, downgraded due to 1) heavy fading (to a tan color) around all edges & spine, 2) cloth is starting to split at head of spine-front cover interface, 3) paper pastedown title box to spine is heavily tanned & lightly chipped. Interior is nice & clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure. Old gift inscription dated 1941 on ffep; NO other writing or underlining or highlighting; not ex-lib. This edition originally came in a slipcase, which is NOT present; no DJ, as issued. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays Pacific time; later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: book is too large for expedited domestic or any international shipping without preapproval of extra (at least double) postage due to USPS rates.
Published by Doubleday, Doran, 1940
Seller: Proteus Bound, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator). Published in green burlap and lacking the slip-case. The spine is browning and the paper label is soiled and slightly raised along its edges. There is a name and date on the front free end-paper.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Daniel, Lewis C. (illustrator). First Thus. Whitman's most famous work, #97 in this first Modern Library Edition from 1921, with an Introduction by Carl Sandburg, who had recently been awarded his first Pulitzer for his own poetry. In 410 pages with Index of First Lines in rear, standard ML endpapers. With light gray-green cloth-covered boards stamped with a gilt design & lettering inside a green title box to both front & spine, this 12mo is in Near Fine condition, marred only by slight corner bumping. Else, completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages off-white with moderate tanning to all edges, completely unmarked save for old gift inscription dated 1947 in pen opposite half-title page to verso of ffep. The unclipped DJ is just Good, with chipping & creasing to extremities, .50" missing paper at head of spine; protected in clear mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
Published by New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940., 1940
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. LCCN: 40-13878 ; xiii, 316 p., [30] leaves of plates : p., ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. ; OCLC: 759929 ; grass-like plaited green cloth, with pasted paper labels ; spine sunned ; bookplate on front ep ; foxed ; in nicked and sunned slipcase ; G/G. Book.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1940
Seller: 2Wakefield, Wakefield, QC, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator). xiii, 316 pages. 28 cm. (4to.) Green burlap like boards with title on paste down strip on spine (spine sunned to brown). Decorative end papers (strip of green leaves). Top edge dark green. Illustrated with 30 out-of-text full-page drawings by Lewis C. Daniel, some in color, some in b/w "reproduced in Similetone and Intaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company". Printed on thick paper (made by the P.H. Glalfelter Company). Book is unmarked, tight and clean. NOTE : Large and heavy book (1.5 kg), may need extra shipping.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., New York City, 1940
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. First Edition Thus. Xvi, 316 Pp. Green Burlap With Paper Spine Label Printed In Green, Decorated Endpapers, Top Edge Stained Green, In Green Slipcase With Paper Spine Label. No Wear Or Marks To Book, But Spine Cloth Faded. Slipcase With Some Wear, No Splits, Slight Browning To Spie Label.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, New York, 1940
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition Thus. Quarto (28cm); green buckram, with title label mounted to spine; green topstain; publisher's original slipcase; xvi,316,[2]pp. Some of the usual sunning to spine, upper rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), else clean internally; Very Good+ or better. Slipcase lightly shelfworn, title label gently sunned, with a few bumps and bruises; Very Good+. Handsome edition of Whitman's much-loved poem, with an introduction by Christopher Morley, and illustrations throughout by Lewis C. Daniel. MYERSON C70.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator). A colourfully illustrated edition of Walt Whitman's monumental poetry collection, a smart edition illustrated by Lewis C. Daniel. 'Leaves of Grass' is a poetry collection by Walt Whitman, an American poet who spent most of his writing live writing and rewriting this work. The poems in the volume are loosely connected, representing Whitman's philosophy of life and humanity, and discussing delight in sensual pleasures, despite the displays of which were considered immoral at the time of the original publication of this work.Illustrated with ten colour plates, and twenty monochrome plates.This edition with an introduction by Christopher Morley, with illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel.Without the slipcase.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Spine and head of the front board are faded. A couple of small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.