Song Of The Open Road
by Whitman, Walt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Black half morocco and green cloth, leather gilt label on spine. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. Hardcover. Black half morocco and green cloth, leather gilt label on spine. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase. 52 pages. 27 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy 13 of 500 illustrated with six photogravures by Aaron Siskind, and signed by him on the colophon. The book was set in English Monotype Scotch at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr. The text was printed by Heritage Printers. Paul Taylor made the photogravure plates and printed them with Clary Nelson at Renaissance Press.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21484
- Title
- Song Of The Open Road
- Author
- Whitman, Walt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Black half morocco and green cloth, leather gilt label on spine. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press; Photography; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
All books returnable 10 days of invoice date with prior notification
About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
Biblio member since 2008
ardsley, New York
About Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...