New York Dissected.A Sheaf of Recently Discovered Newspaper Articles by the Author of Leaves of Grass [Limited Edition]

Published by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, New York, 1936

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

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New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, 1936 [but 1944?]. First Edition, First Issue, Limited to 750 copies of which this is no. 245. Octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket lettered in red; xiii,[3],257pp.; portrait frontispiece & seven (7) leaves of plates. Very minor wear to jacket extremities, corners tapped, faint offsetting to endpapers, else a Very Good, fresh and sound copy. The first collected appearance of local newspaper articles and sketches composed in the 1850s and 1860s while Whitman was revising "Leaves of Grass." Though the title page date provided is 1936, the advertisement on rear jacket panel to "Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps" indicates this was actually published sometime around 1944. BAL 21475.

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Title
New York Dissected.A Sheaf of Recently Discovered Newspaper Articles by the Author of Leaves of Grass [Limited Edition]
Author
Walt Whitman; Emory Holloway and Ralph Adimari [intro.]
Publisher
Rufus Rockwell Wilson, New York
Publication year
1936
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Edition
1st Edition
Seller catalogs
19th Century, Essays, New York, Poetry

Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

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