Whitman Morley (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A few small chips from jacket edges, jacket price clipped. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1946 Hard Cover. xii, 121 pp. A collection of wisdom from various literary greats such as Charles Dickens, Francis Bacon, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, with woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: good. Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator). 10-5/8" tall; 316pp; b/w plates; green burlap over boards; darkened paper label on spine has 2 small chps; spine is sunned; frayed top & bottom of spine; repaired tear along front gutter. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, clean dj - from a private collection - Condition: Very Good. 317 p., very clean and unmarked, green burlap boards, clean spine with paste-down label, v clean slipcase with clean paste-down label, a fine copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reissue. Very good in worn publisher's slipcase. Spine toned as usual, slipcase repaired on label edge, 1 inch splits to slipcase corners along opening and some loss from label edge corners, front slipcase panel heavily rubbed. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1940 Hard Cover. xiii, 316 pp. Original green boards designed to emulate grass, paper spine label, issued in green slipcase with paper label. Beautiful color and black-and-white illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel created specially for this edition. Introduction by Christopher Morley. From colophon: 'This edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was planned by Richard Ellis and produced under his direction. The illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel were reproduced in Similetone and Instaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company of Long Island City. The paper was specially made for this new edition by the P. H. Glatfelter Company of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. The Composition, Printing and Binding by The Haddon Craftsmen of Camden, New Jersey.

Oversize Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Daniel, Lewis C. (illustrator). A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding, light foxing at endpapers. Heavy green burlap covered boards are a bit faded, especially on spine. 8 1/4"w x 11"h. 316 pages. Illustrations in black and white and color by Lewis C. Daniel. Keywords: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Illustrated, William Carlos Williams, Photographs, Seventies, Free Verse, Sensuality, Symbolism, Nature, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Song of Myself, Body Electric, Homosexuality 2.

1st edition. 127 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. VG (covers a bit darkened/bkpt on front paste-down/very little pencil checks on some items). Grey pictorial boards. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good copy in original green cloth with paper spine label; publisher's slipcase (spine has some fading, some wear to label; slipcase has some chipping and wear; neat ink name on endpaper). xiii, [3], 316, [1] pages. Selections from the collection, plus Whitman's preface to the 1855 edition; introduction by Morley. Daniel, Lewis C. (illustrator); Over 20 Color & b/w Illustrations / Plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator). xiii, 316 pages. 28 cm. Green burlap boards with green title over white label to spine. Decorative end papers). Top edge blue-green. Illustrated with 30 out-of-text full-page drawings, some in color. some in b/w "reproduced in Similetone and Intaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company". Printed on special thick paper (made by the P.H. Glalfelter Company). Sunned spine (brown) and to boards along the spine. Book is bright and tight with clear illustrations. NOTE : Large and heavy book (1.5 kg), may need extra shipping, please inquire.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. [x], 45 pp. Pictorial thick weave cloth with label to spine and deckle edge. Wear to extremities. Frontis tissue paper loose. Internally clean. With photographs by Arnold Genthe and a preface by Christopher Morley. 1100 copies of this edition were printed. 29.5cms tall, 20cms wide. 4to.

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.

Condition: Acceptable.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Daniel, Lewis C. Color Ilust (illustrator). Ellis Ed. VERY GOOD CONDITION smooth,Green Burlap cloth hard covers.Quite nice original protective BROWN BOX. showing some wear to box corner folds, but overall quite nice box. .*****HAS PASTE ON SPINE STRIP TITLE .****; This is a bit over sized, even for oversized books.FFEP has narrow green line of leaves near binding edge, ow eps are quite white.Spine title strip is on white paper, glued to spine.; 8x11"oversized.; 316+ps pages; Attractive Copy WITH DRAMATIC FULL PAGE ARTWORK.Inspirational. .8 PAGE INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1940. Doubleday, Doran & Co. A Hardback in Very Good ++ condition, in publisher's original cloth binding. Selected and with an Introduction by Christopher Morley and Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. Fading to spine and front board, some edgewear to spine label. One very small mark to back board. But spine and page block are firm and tight. Dust toning to top of page block. Some age related toning/foxing to front pastedown and ffep, elsewhere extremely mildly. A few, occasional, tiny marks to pages. Otherwise pages clean, bright and unmarked. Without the slipcase. Without inscriptions. Beautifully illustrated with 10 plates in colour and 20 monochrome plates. A lovely book in Very Good ++ condition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 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.