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The Illustrated Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0448020742
- ISBN 13
- 9780448020747
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Madison Square Press / Grosset and Dunlap, 1971. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound in tan cloth and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 192 pages. Preface by Howard Chapnick. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Illustrated throughout with evocative black and white photographs. First edition, with no additional printings listed. No previous ownership marks. Book is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust-jacket shows light edge-wear to extremities and an old clear tape repair to short tear on front panel. Very good+ in a good dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020675
- Title
- The Illustrated Leaves of Grass
- Author
- Whitman, Walt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0448020742
- ISBN 13
- 9780448020747
- Publisher
- Madison Square Press / Grosset and Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Second copy, 020675A pc dust-jacket in acetate, private inscription on ffep and old retail price sticker from Strand (NYC) inside front cover VG+/VG+ $28; 3rd 020675B, pc dj., acetate, inscription; VG+/VG+; 4th pc dj, dj sl. age soiled, VG+/VG Gar. B32
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.