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The Portable Walt Whitman
by Whitman, Walt
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1966. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Trade paperback. 698 pages. Includes Leaves of Grass, Democratic Vistas, and Specimen Days, with a biological introduction by Mark Van Doren. With Indexes of titles and firs lines. Eleventh printing thus. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tight and unmarked copy. Very good+. .
Synopsis
When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass , and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days , and Slang in America .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020598
- Title
- The Portable Walt Whitman
- Author
- Whitman, Walt
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Poetry and Prose - Walt Whitman
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
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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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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