Walt Whitman: A Study in the Evolution of Personality
by Smuts, Jan Christian; McLeod, Alan L. [editor]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 206 pages. Edited, with a foreword, by Alan L. McLeod. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition. An important work on Whitman, penned in 1895 but not published for over three-quarters of a century, Smuts, later Field Marshall and Prime Minister of South Africa was a student at Cambridge when he became enthralled with Whitman. A well researched and seminal study, in not way diminished by future Whitman studies. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, tight and internally unmarked copy. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020360
- Title
- Walt Whitman: A Study in the Evolution of Personality
- Author
- Smuts, Jan Christian; McLeod, Alan L. [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Detroit
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Literary Criticism, Walt Whitman
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- Cloth
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