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Hard cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Number 79 of only 400 such copies produced, comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-92. Folio, half red morocco over oak boards lettered in black on spine. Woodcuts by Valenti Angelo throughout, and signed by him. Often considered the finest production of the Grabhorn Press. Some rubbing and superficial cracking on leather spine, along with a few light spots and scuffs. Outside edges of pages discolored from age, clean and unmarked throughout inside.

Third edition, first printing; 8vo (20 x 14 cm); portrait frontispiece (Myerson Form 1 signed 'Schoff' in plate on irregularly shaped light-brown background), imprints of The Boston Stereotype Foundry and George C. Rand & Avery on copyright page, library stamp to contents page header, old library pocket to rear pastedown; publisher's dark reddish orange cloth (Myerson type D, BAL C), upper and lower panels blindstamped, spine blindstamped and lettered in gilt, cloth faded, joints and extremities rubbed, signatures a little loose but holding, internally browned with occasional spotting, a well-thumbed ex-library copy; iv, 5-456pp. The scarce first trade edition of Walt Whitman's seminal collection of poems on the philosophy of life, Leaves of Grass. Whitman continued to revise and add to the text until his death in 1892. This, the first printing of the third edition, marks the greatest single leap in the evolution of the text, with more than 100 poems added to the original work. It includes the first appearance of the 'Calamus' sequence, considered by many to be Whitman's clearest expression in print of his views on homoerotic love. 'The edition is Whitman's most famous after the first and contains some of his greatest poems, including (using final titles) "Starting from Paumanok" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." The first of these is a more literal rendering of the spiritual autobiography in "Song of Myself" (paumanok is the American Indian term for "fish-shaped," referring to Long Island). The second was originally titled "A Child's Reminiscence" in the volume (it had yet another title in an 1859 magazine publication) because it is a meditation on lost innocence as it is realized at midlife ("A man, yet by these tears a little boy again"). The poet comes to realize that the freedom celebrated in his first edition and in "Song of Myself" is not altogether consistent with a way of coping with life's essential imperfection and that the duty of the poet is thus to sing of Love and Death, the common denominators of such imperfection. In a real sense, this poem about a man in crisis at midlife also suggests the crisis of poetry, that is, the power of its romantic illusions to overcome completely the fear of death' (ANB). Myerson A2.3.a1; BAL 21397; Wells pp.7-9.

The "suppressed Boston edition" (seventh edition overall) of the most important volume in American poetry, one of 1,010 copies printed. Octavo, original publisher's mustard cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded engraved portrait of the author by Hollyer after the daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison opposite page 29. BAL 21418. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dr. C H Shivers from the author." The recipient, Dr. C.H. Shivers was a Haddonfield, New Jersey-based physician, memberÂofÂthe New Jersey Medical Society for Camden County and friend and dinner companionÂofÂWhitman's (according to The Collected WritingsÂofÂWalt Whitman, Vol. 4, CorrespondenceÂof Walt Whitman, 1989). The Suppressed Edition was the earliest edition to haveÂLeavesÂofÂGrassÂin what is considered the book's final form. The suppressed edition's electroplates were used in all later editions, including the so-called "Death Bed Edition."Â"On March 1, 1882, Oliver Stevens, district attorney for the CommonwealthÂofÂMassachusetts, suggested to James R. Osgood & Co., that this edition should be withdrawn from publication becauseÂofÂits obscene nature. After some discussion between Whitman, the publishers and the attorney general about alterations and excisions to remedy the situation, Whitman decided in early April against making the necessary changes. James R. Osgood & Co., then decided to cease acting as publisher and on May 17, 1882, reached an agreement with Whitman whereby Whitman received $100, 225 copies, more or less, in sheets, and the plates and dies, in return for all claims for royalties and cancelling the contract. On May 19 Whitman wrote to the Boston binder, S.H. Sanborn, requesting him to send the 225 setsÂofÂsheets to James ArnoldÂofÂPhiladelphia, and to the Boston printers, Rand & Avery, requesting them to prepare 225 copiesÂofÂa new title leaf. Whitman sent out the first copiesÂof this this issue on June 11, 1882." (BAL, Vol. 9, p. 43). In very good condition. Exceptionally rare signed by Whitman. â No one knows for certain how Whitman raised the money to pay for the first Leaves of Grassâ ¦ Whitman had taken his manuscript to a couple of friends, the brothers James and Thomas Rome, who had a printing shop at the corner of Fulton and Cranberry Streets. Possibly the author had tried a commercial publisher first and had the book rejected. If so, he kept quiet about it. The Romes did print a few books but specialized in the printing of legal documents. Whitman, a proud and skilled printer, moved in on them to oversee the production of Leaves. They allowed him to set type himself whenever he felt like it. Ten pages or so were his own work. He had a routine and a special chair over in the cornerâ ¦ The engraved portrait facing the title page (showed) a person who looked as if he might be the printer rather than the author. He was unnamedâ ¦ Before a reader reached the dozen untitled poems there stood the barrier of the preface, an off-putting obstacle of ten pages of weirdly punctuated prose in close print, set in double columns. The poems themselves were in more readable type, laid across a wide format to accommodate the strangely long and irregular lines. The inking was spotty and must have given Whitman some qualms, but he had no money to spare for anything betterâ ¦ The centerpiece of his strange book, in the â rough and ragged thicket of its pages,â was a sustained poem of fifty-two sections called â Song of Myselfâ ¦ If Emerson is, in John Deweyâ s words, the philosopher of democracy, then Whitman is indisputably its poet. In Whitman we have a democrat who set out to imagine the life of the average man in average circumstances changed into something grand and heroicâ ¦ He claimed that he had never been given a proper hearing, and spent his whole life trying to publish himself. A hundred years after his death, the strange fate of his book is known. He said often enough that it had been a financial failure, signed it and himself over to posterity, a â candidate for the futureâ ¦ There has never been a more remarkable poemâ (Callow, From Noon to Starry Night). â Always the champion of the common man, Whitman is both the poet and the prophet of democracyâ ¦ In a sense, it is Americaâ s second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectualâ (PMM 340). The most important and influential volume of poetry written in America, Whitmanâ s literary masterpiece, Leaves of Grass is â one of the most magnificent fabrications of modern timesâ ¦ he never surrenderedâ ¦ his vision of himself as one who might go forth among the American people and astonish themâ ¦â (DAB). The first edition of Leaves of Grass was a failure with the public, but upon receiving a copy, Emerson responded with his famous letter. â I find it [Leaves of Grass] the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributedâ ¦ I greet you at the beginning of a great career.â .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Editions. Signed copies of this "author's editions being the fifth edition, third printing, second issue of Leaves of Grass of which around 800 and 600 copies respectively were printed; the title page signed by Whitman with Two Rivulets first edition, first issue with blank leaf between "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free and "Memoranda During the War" and ad leaf for Whitman's books between the last two blanks in the book; signed by Whitman on the frontispiece as he did when he sold the books. Both bound in the original marbled boards and half cream calf, spines handsomely rebacked sympathetically. "Leaves" has considerable pencilling (light lines/no words) in the center of the book about 20 pages. Very good set with the original yellow endpapers. Whitman suffered a stroke in 1873 and by 1876 was living with relatives. He published this set to earn his independence if possible as he wrote to his champion in England the critic Robert Buchanan in a letter May 16, 1876 "I shall .continue to be my own publisher & bookseller.the set $10".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Vojtéch Preissig (illustrator). First edition thus, limited. Folio (15.5"x12"). 25pp. Typographic paper-covered boards. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers. Sun-darkened left margin of upper cover. Soiled topedge of textblock. Corners rubbed with boards exposed. Foxed endpapers & last blank leaves, pages toned. 3-color linoleum cuts, with tissue. Designed & illustrated by Vojtéch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 109 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 1 from the New Fine Book Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Vojtéch Preissig (illustrator). First edition thus, limited. Folio (15.5"x12"). 25pp. Typographic paper-covered boards. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers, slightly sun-darkened edges. Corners rubbed with boards exposed. Foxed endpapers & last blank leaves, pages toned. 3-color linoleum cuts, with tissue. Designed & illustrated by Vojtéch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 336 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 1 from the New Fine Book Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Limited Editions Club, Inc., New York, 1942. First edition thus. First printing thus. Two volumes in slipcase. Near-fine copies in a near-fine slipcase. A clean copy, with small, neat bookseller plate on lower corner of front pastedowns of both volumes. Note: Wear to extremities of both copies and slipcase (as pictured). Slight must odor. This copy is #1004, of just 1500, of the limited edition signed by Weston, the photographer, on the colophon of Volume II (as pictured). A beautiful, rare copy. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed (by the illustrator, Preissig), limited edition. 26 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 40 x 30 cm. Bound in publisher's vellum-backed, cream boards. Small nick on spine, otherwise as new. Clean, unmarked pages. "'Salut au monde!' was first published in 1850. The present text is the final reading as printed in 1900 in David McKay's complete edition of 'Leaves of Grass'."--Page [8]. New fine book series, no. 1, printed in Czechoslovakia. "This edition consists of 390 copies, of which 360 are for sale. The text has been printed on Zanders hand-made paper by the State Printing Office in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in a new type cut by Vojtech Preissig and cast by the same Office."--Colophon. Signed.

Condition: Fine. First edition. WHITMAN AS A BOOKSELLER, TRYING TO SELL LEAVES OF GRASS. In this letter, Whitman has written to New York publishers Dick & Fitzgerald mentioning Leaves of Grass. He offers the book to them at a 33% discount and signs the letter with his full signature "Walt Whitman". Framed alongside the letter is the famous photo of Whitman touching the (prop) butterfly from the first edition of Whitman's "Specimen Days & Collect". The letter, dated Feb 18, 1888 from his 328 Mickle Street address (Camden, New Jersey) reads in full: "After some delay I have succeeded in getting you a two Vol. set (in perfect order half leather binding) those portraits from life, of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets ed'n 1876 - Shall I send the vols to you? The price is $6.66 (+10 - one-third off). [signed] Walt Whitman" Matted and framed with UV filtered glass with opening on back to show the address side of post card. Framed alongside Whitman's letter is the photograph of Whitman from Specimen Days. Dimensions - Frame: 38.1cm x 30.5cm (15in x 12in), letter: 13.3cm x 7.6cm (5.25in x 3in), Whitman print: 9.5cm x 14.6cm (3.75in x 5.75in). Fine condition with signature strong and bold.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Interpreted with seven original color engravings by Terry Haass. Limited to 150 copies, signed by Haass on the limitation page and each engraving. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Brown cloth folding portfolio, some fading at the spine. Plain printed wraps with loose pages as issued. This work features Whitman's "Song of Myself," "A Prairie Sunset," "Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here," and "A Clear Midnight.".

Condition: Very Good. Signed Limited First Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDTION OF THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF WHITMAN'S WORK; A REMARKABLE COPY FROM WHITMAN'S PERSONAL LIBRARY. On this Edition:â "Whitman never lost his passion for joining disparate parts into a whole: it was the basis of his politics, his philosophy, and his bookmaking. He wrote to one acquaintance in 1886 that 'I think of. bringing out a complete budget of all my writing in one book.'. Horace Traubel was again involved in getting this big book out, and he and Whitman had endless discussions about all aspects of its production." â â Whitman was worried about his failing health and terrified that he would die before his "big book" was published. "At one point the poet told Traubel, 'I am in a hurry-in a hurry: I want to see the book in plates: then I can die satisfied. We will attend to the presswork and binding when we come to it. The main thing is the plates-the plates. Horace, I am on the verge of a final collapse: I look on the future-even tomorrow, next day-with a feeling of the greatest uncertainty. I am anything but secure: let us make the book secure.' . Whitman was immersed in every aspect of his bookmaking" and was very pleased with the result, for upon receiving the first copies he declared to Traubel, "it's better-far, far better-than the best I looked for." (All quotations from Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman). Whitman's "big book"- what he thought of as the final monument to his career - was published in only 600 copies "for the author's own use", with each copy signed on the title page. This copy is the first issue - without the limitation number added by hand by Horace Traubel. (All copies that were distributed before Feb. 14, 1889 were unnumbered.) In Myerson's binding A. On this copy - from Whitman's own personal library: With presentation inscription on the front free endpaper fromThomas Biggs Harned: "To John Lewis Cochran, Esq., with the compliments of Thomas B. Harned, June 11, 1897 / This book is one of a few copies of this edition found among the author's effects after his death and it came into the hands of his literary executors. T.B. Harned." "One of Whitman's three literary executors, Thomas Biggs Harned [1851-1921] was a prosperous Philadelphia lawyer and a brother-in-law of Horace Traubel. His twenty-year acquaintance with Whitman involved nearly daily contact during the poet's final years. Harned's well-furnished Camden home was a social center where Whitman dined and drank richly, amused Harned's three children, and met prominent religious and political men. Harned funded the construction of Whitman's mausoleum and co-arranged his funeral, at which he participated as speaker and pallbearer. Later, Harned wrote the introduction to the definitive ten-volume Camden Edition of Whitman's works (1902)." (The Walt Whitman Archive). The "Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman" now resides in the Library of Congress.â The recipient, John Lewis Cochran (1857-1923), was a Philadelphia businessman who later moved to Chicago and became a prominent real estate developer. Laid in are prints of four photographs (possibly unique prints) of Whitman's mausoleum in Camden, NJ (funded by Harned). It appears that the man with the long beard in three of the photographs is Richard Maurice Bucke (along with Traubel and Harned, Whitman's literary executor) and that the shorter man with the mustache is Harned. (The third man in one of the photos remains unidentified.) Also with a beautiful phototype portrait of Whitman by the Philadelphia photographer Frederick Gutekunst and a broadside printing of "An impromptu criticism on the 900 page Volume 'the Complete Peoms and Prose of Walt Whitman'" by Bucke laid-in. Book complete with title page portrait (Linton engraving after G.C. Potter photograph) and engraved portrait of Whitman as a young man (used as frontispiece in the 1855 Leaves of Grass) bound in at page 28, before Leaves of Grass. Complete Poems & Prose of Walt.

The so-called "Author's Edition," actually the third printing of the fifth edition (600 copies). Second issue, with integral title leaf. Signed by Whitman in ink on title page; additionally inscribed in Whitman's hand on front free endpaper: "Henry King / from the author." Original cream leather spine and corners over marbled boards; bright yellow coated endpapers; 384,[3] + 1pp ads. Evidence of old professional strengthening to front and rear joints (external); leather spine and corners have darkened to tan, as usual; a few leaves with brief marginal tears, not affecting text. A generally clean, Very Good copy in the original binding. BAL 21412. MYERSON A.2.5.c.(2). The Author's edition of Leaves of Grass was issued uniform with Two Rivulets in August, 1876, and the two titles were advertised for purchase separately or as a set. Many if not most copies were signed by Whitman on the title page, and it is not altogether uncommon to find copies with additional presentation inscriptions on the front endpaper. The current copy carries an obscure but pleasing association: it is inscribed to the Topeka, Kansas journalist Henry King, founder and editor of the Kansas Magazine which, though short-lived (1872-73) was one of the most ambitious western literary periodicals of its time. King's ambition was for his magazine to rival the Atlantic Monthly in both quality of content and popularity, but with an emphasis on the "New West;" to this end he solicited original contributions from leading midwestern writers, and especially writers from the Great Plains. One of the few eastern writers published by King was Whitman, whose poems "The Mystic Trumpeter" and "Virginia - The West" [Myerson E2517 & E2518] first appeared in its pages in February and March, respectively, of 1872; the magazine also published a pseudonymous prose piece, "Walt Whitman in Europe" [E2523], actually written by Whitman, in December of that year. The oddity of Whitman's inclusion in a periodical primarily focused on writers (and audiences) from the prairies has been commented on by at least one critic: ".Whitman's inclusion suggests that King (if no one else) saw in him a cultural figure, both well-known and different enough from the mainstream literary establishment in the East to help the editor achieve his own goals of promoting literature and negotiating a specific literary and cultural identity distinct from that of cultural centers in the East" (see Vaness Steinroetter, "Walt Whitman in the Early Kansas Press;" Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Summer 2016, pp 182ff). After the failure of his literary journal, King would go on to become editor of the prominent midwestern news daily, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, but that Whitman chose to inscribe the current work to him suggests that he may have kept at least one foot in the literary world.

The collection is that of Mr George Humphreys, one of a group of friends who met in Bolton, UK, and called themselves "The College". Their meetings soon became dominated by their interest in Walt Whitman, which later turned into regular correspondence with WW and his orbit of friends, and culminated in two visits by two members of the group to meet WW (their subsequent signed books to GH forming part of the collection). The collection also includes a first centennial edition of Rivulets, complete with signed photograph as called for, a signed photograph of WW, a "Deathbed Edition" of Leaves of Grass and some very scarce books relating to WW. (8 books + photo) 1. WHITMAN, Walt Signed photograph of himself, pencil date 1887, with a distinctive, large signature by Whitman below his image. Photo by "F. Gute Kunst Philadelphia" main image measures 9.5 x 14cms. 2. WHITMAN, Walt. Two Rivulets. Camden, Centennial edition (first edition, second printing), 1876 one of 600 copies. The albumen photograph portrait of Whitman in the front is signed and dated by the author. Additionally, tipped in, is a package label to previous owner (George Humphreys care of Dr Johnston), which bears the author's signature. The label appears to have been cut out of an envelope from the publisher, the verso having the printed address of David McKay, Publisher and Bookseller together with the handwritten address of Walt Whitman and a postal stamp of 2(?) Sept '91 presumably the envelope was opened up so that it could be used as a label for onward shipping for the book, as there are glue spots where it has been attached. The stamp mark on the addressed label side is dated Oct 5 '91). This actual event was noted by J W Wallace (in Visits to Walt Whitman, George Allen & Unwin, 1917 p.192) who was visiting Whitman during 1891, until November of that year: 'He had had "a letter from Dr Johnston yesterday, but no special news in it: all seemed to be moving along as usual." I told him that I had also received a letter from Johnston, and that George Humphreys had been very much pleased with a copy of the centennial edition in two volumes of "Leaves of Grass," etc., which W had sent him. W. smiled kindly, saying: Likes it, eh?' Later in the book (p.199) Wallace writes: 'W. "I had a letter from Johnstone yesterday, and one from George Humphreys, saying that he had got his book and thanking me ' The last section of the book includes extracts from the letters of Horace Traubel (Wallace writes: 'The full story of Whitman's last illness will be published in due course by Horace Traubel. A short installment of it appeared in 1893 in a volume edited by Whitman's literary executors and entitled "In Re Walt Whitman." This account consists of extracts from letters which Traubel wrote to us daily (which we forwarded for circulation amongst Whitman's chief friends in Britain, etc,), and from his letters to Dr Bucke.' One such entry (p.236) reads 'Feb. 12th "I have just had a talk with W., but he was so weak, after passing a bad day, that he was not able to say much or to manifest any great interest. I told him I would go into the next room and send a line to you, whereat he advised me to include his love to you all, with special remembrances to George Humphreys and Fred Wilde and particular affectionateness to J.W.W. He loves you all and his sweet words of you should exalt you for ever.' 3. JOHNSTON, M.D., John Notes Of a Visit To Walt Whitman, Etc. In July, 1890 Printed for Private Circulation / T. Brimelow & Co, 1890 Inscribed on front cover: "George Humphreys /with kindest regards from his friend / the author". Laid in a single page reprint from "Bolton Journal & Guardian", Oct. 8th 1915 concerning Dr J Jonhson taking up war service. Bound in with: 4. WHITMAN, Walt Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; Preface to the Original Edition, 1855. Published by Trubner & Co., 1881. Only 500 copies were issued in printed wrappers. Inscribed on front cover: "George Humphreys / from J W Wallace / 30-2-92" (J W Wallace co-author of Visits to Walt Whitman, Allen & Unwin 1917) 5. JOHNSTON, J. and WALLACE, J.W. Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891. By Lancashire Friends. George Allen & Unwin 1917. In original dust jacket. Signed by the author to the half-title page. Laid in is a reprinted article from the "Millgate Monthly", October 1917 regarding the forthcoming publication of the book, inscribed by the author "To George Humphreys / Something for a Loner / & a souvenir / JJ". 6. In Re Walt Whitman: Edited by his literary executors, Horace L Traubel, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B Harned. Limited Edition Np. 88/1,000 copies. Inspired by and dedicated to Walt Whitman. Bucke was one of Whitman's three literary executors. Davis McKay, Philadelphia, 1893 G Humphreys name written on title page. 7. BUCKE, Richard Maurice M.D. Man's Moral Nature G P Putnam's Sons, 1879 Inscribed: "George Humphreys from the author with best wishes and regards. Asylum, London, Ontario, Canada. 1 Jan 92." 8. BUCKE, Richard Maurice M.D. Walt Whitman David McKay, Philadelphia, 1883 Inscribed: "George Humphries [sic] from J W Wallace, Camden Oct. 1891" Sent while Wallace (co-author of Visits to Walt Whitman) was visiting Whitman. "An unconventional book, as much anthology of documents about the poet as a biography. It was also a collaboration; Whitman advised throughout, revised Bucke's text, and wrote significant portions of the book himself" (LeMaster: Walt Whitman, An Encyclopaedia; p.87). 9. WHITMAN, Walt Leaves of Grass "Deathbed Edition", first printing with date printed as 1891-'2, 23 South Ninth Street address, yellow endpapers. Myerson A2.7.l2 David McKay, Philadelphia, 1891-'2 "George Humphreys /with kindest regards from his friend / J Johnson / Bolton / Mar 23rd 1892". A wonderful single owner collection. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great car.

Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, Year 85 of the States (1860-1861). 8vo, 456 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait on light brown background, signed in plate, "Schoff." Original brown wavy-ribbed cloth, backstrip lettered & pictorially decorated in gilt, covers lettered and pictorially decorated in blind, floral patterned endpapers. Cloth rubbed with a few marks, backstrip ends and corners worn, slightly cocked and shaken, hinges cracked, front flyleaf excised; neat ink notation at p. 10; a good or better unrestored copy. § Third edition (first trade edition), first printing, first state of the frontispiece, binding B, per BAL 21397. BAL's binding A consisted of wrappers found only on advance copies. Although no name appears on the title page, Whitman's name is on the copyright page and his portrait is the frontispiece. This is the highly significant first commercial edition of Leaves of Grass following the two editions self-published by Whitman. For this edition the book was dramatically expanded with over 100 poems, including the first appearance of the "Calamus" sequence considered by many to be Whitman's clearest celebration of male homoerotic love.

First edition. Oblong softcover. Simultaneous paperback issue. Text in English and German and features 16 poems from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" that are accompanied by color illustration by Cava and four of which are gatefold images. A very near fine copy in French style wrappers. Signed by Cava on the last page. A beautiful production.

First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. Number 95 of 300 copies. Text in English and German and features 16 poems from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" that are accompanied by color illustration by Cava and four of which are gatefold images. A fine copy in cloth boards with color images affixed to both the front and rear panels. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Cava on the limitation page. A beautiful production.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Thin printed stitched wraps containing two poems. Of a total of 200 numbered copies, this is #29 of 50 SIGNED by Bly.

4° (quer); 28 x 31 cm. 176 S. mit zahlreichen künstlerisch gestalteten oder verfremdeten Aktfotografien in aufwendigem Vierfarbendruck und 4 ausfaltbaren Tafeln. Orig.-Leinen mit montierter Illustration am Vorder- und Hinterdeckel, mit Front- und RTitel. |Erste Ausgabe| in 300 numierten und signierten Exemplaren, auf separatem Zertifikat. Aufwendig und edel gestaltetes Foto-Kunst-Werk. Text und Papiergrund zweifarbig. 16 Gedichte von Walt Whitmans "Leaves of Grass" werden begleited von den erotischen, morbid schönen Fotoillustrationen Paul Cavas. Sehr gutes Exemplar. ------------------ Whitman, Walt - Paul Cava. Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass. Poems by Walt Whitman. Artwork by Paul Cava. Edited by Alexander Scholz. Edition Galerie Vevais, 2005. First edition. 4vo (oblong) hardcover. Orig. cloth boards, both covers with mounted pictures and title on cover and back. 176 p with many four-color reproductions with two additional decorative colors and 4 additional gatefolds. First printing. Number 199 of 300 copies. Text in English and German and features 16 poems from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" that are accompanied by color illustration by Cava and four of which are gatefold images. A fine copy. Signed by Cava on the limitation page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First paperback printing. Wear and chipping to spine and edges; minor creasing to covers; pages toned, else very good copy of an early Penguin imprint.

First Mentor Printing. Mentor MS 117. Near Fine to Fine condition.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. With woodcuts by Valenti Angelo. Complete in one volume. First edition based on the 271 title on the jacket verso. In original, unclipped, dust jacket. Jacket has several chips, tears, and rubbings; some tape on verso, all in mylar. Green cloth over boards with gilded publisher's mark on front and gilding on spine and inside black labels on spine. Former owner bookplate of half-title. Discoloration and transfer from the jacket on endpapers. Interior is very clean and clear.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Good+ in a Fair slipcase. Owner name on front pastedown. Owner personalization inked on slipcase illustration. Front hinge cracked. FEP torn out. Half of slipcase top edge missing. Large closed tear on slipcase spine. Shelfwear and chipping on slipcase side edges.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Good+ in boards. Owner personalization on entire FEP. Front hinge cracked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Boardman Robinson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition thus. The Illustrated Modern Library. No DJ. Book design by Warren Chappell. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. Illustrations by Boardman Robinson. Edges of the publisher's slipcase loose. Handsomely illustrated with 15 drawings, most in color. Unmarked pages. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Very Good in Good Slipcase.

Hardcover. Selected and with introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. 4to. Green burlap with paper spine label, slipcase with paper label. xiii, 316pp. Full-page illustrations (some color). Very good/very good. Binding spine typically a bit sunned; slipcase quite rubbed but strong. First of this edition with Daniel illustrations, tight and attractive. Daniel's many full-page plates are evocative and spectacular.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Boardman Robinson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition thus. The Illustrated Modern Library. No DJ. Book design by Warren Chappell. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. Illustrations by Boardman Robinson. Handsomely illustrated with 15 drawings, most in color. Unmarked pages. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. undated circa 1937, green gold cloth, slipcase is present with worn spine and edges, no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Modern Library. New York. 1921. 409 pages. While the copyright page states 1921, 1950 is more likely. Book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong. Book is about near-fine except for 2 small stains on darkened topstain. Hardly obnoxious, but noted. Uncommon DJ shows rubbing along folds with minor shelf-rubbing elsewhere. 95 cents price intact on DJ. An attractive copy of the classic. VG+/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Green cloth, gilt. Minor scuffing on the corners and spine, bumped head and heel. Dampstain on the frontis tissue guard, but otherwise clean interior. "Including a Fac-simile autograph variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves." Contains a 2 facsimile letters and 5 plates. First thus. British edition using the American guts. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good slipcase. Faint foxing along slipcase panels. Chipping on bottom slipcase edge. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel.