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Leaves Of Grass, Including: Sands At Seventy, First Annex, Good-By My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, And Portrait From Life
by Whitman, Walt
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Aventine Press, 1931. Book. Good+. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, royal octavo bound in reddish cloth lettered in gold on spine, lacking dust-jacket. 580 pages. Index of titles. First edition thus, the second volume in the Aventine Classics series, printed and bound by the Department of Limited Editions of J.J. Little and Ives Company. No previous ownership marks. Small, old Boston booksellers label on lower front end-paper. A tight, sound, unmarked copy with no writing, underlining or highlighting to text. Cloth covers show minimal wear from age at tips and spine ends. Very good. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020342
- Title
- Leaves Of Grass, Including: Sands At Seventy, First Annex, Good-By My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, And Portrait From Life
- Author
- Whitman, Walt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Aventine Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Poetry, Walt Whitman
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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