Whitman Walt Text (13 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. No date stated. ISBN 0825811244. Owner's name on front cover.

Sheet. Condition: Good. Book has rubbing to the spine crease, light corner wear, light penciling scattered throughout pages.otherwise book is in good condition. Pages are bright and crisp with a solid spine. A good reference copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed / inscribed by Loewen on the front flyleaf. Binding and pages are clean. DJ spine is sunned. Else DJ is bright, clean. ; POH17D; 45 pages; Signed by Author. Illustrated by Rob Day (illustrator).

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. INCLUSIVE EDITION. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NO PR ICE) DUST JACKET.SMALL, TASTEFUL BOOKPLATE EP ; greeen titles on white spine title label .all on dark green cloth hard covers. .DJ back cover advert for BUY WAR BONDS"; 728ps thick pages; Some fade to GOLD SPINE TITLES on Green Cloth Hard covers. .includes CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.; SONG OF MYSELF. …

Condition: Near Fine. Boston 1925 (copyright) Birchard. Music and Lyrics. Includes piano accompaniment for four hands. 4to., 24pp., original printed wraps. Near Fine, no marks.

Condition: Gut. Jahr: c1948. Einband: Broschur. Beschreibung: ED 3800. On the poem by / nach der Dichtung von Walt Whitman (Deutsche Übertragung vom Komponisten). Textunterlegung Engl./Dt. For Mezzo soprano and Baritone Soli, Chorus and Orchestra. VN/Pl. no. 37329. Sehr gutes Expl. 153 S.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Inscribed by both the Publisher and the Introducer. Limited Edition, Published posthumously. One of 250 copies printed, this being # 32 [one of the copies on American Hand Made Paper] signed by the publisher, Whitman's friend, George D. Smith. Introduction by another of Whitman's friends, noted naturalist John Burroughs, who, in this copy, also inscribed and signed the book on the ffep, Lovely frontisportrait of Whitman. Image of letter in Whitman's hand describing the incident tipped in. B/W image of portrait of LaFayette. Unpaginated. Untrimmed page edges. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey-brown paper-spined over grey-brown paper covered boards with contrasting paper lettering label to front board. Corners bumped and worn. Boards moderately soiled. Tightly bound. Interior clean and sound. This is the first publication of an undated manuscript that Whitman prepared for the publisher describing Whitman's much related reminiscence of his interaction with the Marquis de Lafayette in the latter's noted return to the United States in 1824-5, when Whitman was six years old. The chance interaction of these two great men bridges time from the middle of the Eighteenth Century, through the American Revolution to the waning years of the Nineteenth Century; the publication of the book brings it into the early Twentieth Century. Exceedingly scarce. No institutional copies. This is one of only four known copies to exist. Our copy is the only copy known to exist that is signed by both the publisher and the introducer. The manuscript went through two printings in 1905. Introduced by Whitman's friend, the American naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921). Uncommon in the trade, particularly with these desirable extras; the last copy at auction appeared in 1992 (Swann Galleries). Myerson A21.1.a; BAL 21458. In archival cover. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Condition: Gut. Jahr: c1948. Einband: Broschur. Beschreibung: On the poem by / nach der Dichtung von Walt Whitman (Deutsche Übertragung vom Komponisten). Textunterlegung Engl./Dt. For Mezzo soprano and Baritone Soli, Chorus and Orchestra. VN/Pl. no. B.S.S. 37329. Sehr gutes Expl. 153 S.

Softcover. Vintage Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Owner name to front panel. A few markings to text.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. First edition. Square Folio. 149 (1)pp. Original gray cloth with silver lettering on spine, in original, photo-illustrated dustjacket, green lettering on spine. Off-white endpapers. Frontispiec photograph. Signed Ray K. Metzker on half-title. Duotone and tritone separations by Martin Senn. "Ray K. Metzker has startled and delighted viewers with his images for the past forty years. Since 1985, he has turned from the urban subjects he began his career with to concentrate on landscapes. During these fifteen years, Metzker has stretched the meaning and importance of the terms "landscape," with photographs ranging in style from the traditional to the abstract." (Publisher). Profusely illstrated with b/w full page photographs of landscapes, and in-text reproductions throughout. Catalog for the exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 2000/1. Contains notes, chronology, exhibition history and lst of plates and figures at rear.…

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); white cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black, navy blue, and gilt on spine and front cover; [6],7-347,[5]pp; black and white photograph (halftone) frontispiece. Inscribed by Mendelson on half title, "For Alvah Bessie / as a most talented American writer and a faithful friend of the late Lars Lawrence with my deepest respect and best wishes / Cordially, / M. Mendelson / May 25, 1977". Errata slip tipped in. Lacking dustjacket. Lightly nudged spine ends, with faint residue to lower edge of textblock; Near Fine. Concludes with Russian bibliography of Whitman's works, and name index section. The inscribed copy of Alvah Bessie, one of the Hollywood Ten, whose writing focused on Spain and the Soviet Union. Mendelson's works uncommon signed. [82388].…

First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 235 numbered copies printed on American hand-made paper and signed by the publisher, this being copy no.40. Octavo (22cm); original gray paper-covered boards, with printed title labels mounted to spine and front cover; publisher's original unprinted blue paper dustjacket; [32]pp, with photographic frontispiece portrait of Whitman, folding plate reproducing a manuscript leaf in Whitman's hand, and an additional plate reproducing a portrait of Lafayette. A brief ALS from John Burroughs (West Park, NY, dated April 23, 1897) tipped onto preliminary blank, and a clipped autograph of the Marquis de Lafayette is mounted at the lower margin beneath his portrait. Light wear to base of spine and lower board edges, gentle sunning and a few tiny nicks to spine label, with a handful of tiny stains to lower right corner of front cover, and a 2.5cm hair-line crack to paper at upper front joint; faint diagonal crease to one corner of folding facsimile; Very Good+. Dustjacket shows some gentle sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, with a few tiny tears and attendant creases along upper edge, and a short split at upper rear flap fold; Very Good+. Housed inside a custom folding case, inside which a previous owner has laid in Portrait of General Lafayette and a View of His Landing in New York in 1824, one of 120 impressions printed in Imperial Japan paper, published by the Society of Iconophiles (1899); accompanied by their 8pp hand-sewn pamphlet An Account of the Arrival of General Lafayette in New York in 1824. First appearance in print of an undated manuscript Whitman prepared for the printer, though never published during his lifetime - a reminiscence of the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the United States in 1824-25, when Whitman was six years old. The manuscript went throught two printings in 1905, published by Whitman's friend, the American naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921). Uncommon in the trade, particularly with these desirable extras; the last copy at auction appeared in 1992 (Swann Galleries). Myerson A21.1.a; BAL 21458.…