Leaves Grass Selected Introduction Christopher by Whitman Walt (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Some pages are falling out. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1940 (date "MCMXL" on title page). First Edition Thus. This edition contains a selection of 61 poems (selected by Christopher Morley) out of the 423 found in the Random House (Grabhorn Press) limited edition of 1930. NOTE: Doubleday produced two bindings for this edition: one, which is of full buckram with green boards and tan spine, from the Haddon Craftsmen, with a slipcase; and the second, of which this copy is one, of green close woven cloth, from the Kingsport Press, which does not appear to have come with a slipcase. Both are of the same dimensions. This copy is Near Fine with no dust jacket and no slipcase. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with green topstain, ten (10) color plates and 21 black-and-white plates by Lewis C. Daniel on unnumbered pages, no markings of any kind, but dampstains to the bottom one inch or so of about a third of the pages. The Binding is full green cloth with paste-on title, etc., to spine, all corners square, and some loss of color at the heel of the spine. See photos. 316 + i + 31 pages of plates. 8 5/8" x 11". This particular copy was sold by the Book-of-the-Month Club on January 15, 1943, as evidenced by an invoice which is still in the book. NOTE: This book weighs 1.38 kg. / 3 lb., 1 oz., is of quarto size, and will require extra postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Daniel, Lewis C (illustrator). First Thus. Near fine copy in the original Dutch linen in slip-case, covers are done is a coarse green buckram with the look and feel of grass. Spine cover a bit sun-toned. Text block tight and complete. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.

Folio. 316, [2] pp. Numerous plates (many in colour). Green linen, printed paper spine labl (mnr sunng to spine), still a VG- copy preserved in open-backd slipcase, from the library of the former Oregonian editor & reviewer, Malcolm Bauer. Early printing of the American Poet's most famed work.

XVI-316 páginas, 1 hoja. Ilustrado con 20 láminas con dibujos en negro y 9 en color por Lewis C. Daniel. Encuadernación editorial en tela arpillera verde, lomo algo rozado, pero buen estado. Etiqueta y sellos de la Bibl. Inst. Int. 28x21 cm.

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.

Hardcover. 4to. pp. xiii, 316, [1]. 30 plates (several colour). buckram (covers faded & owner's name on front blank).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A good book, with no dust jacket. Book has great illustrations of Whitman's classic by Lewis C. Daniel. There is damage to the spine cover top and bottom, but book is solid and secure, with clean pages.

Fine in publisher's Slipcase. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Special Edition printed on paper made for this edition. 8 3/8"x11". A Fine copy in deep green burlap, spine label, in publisher's matching green paper slipcase, without dustwrapper as issued. Very slight dulling of cloth along spine. Beautiful copy! Q15076.