Author: WHITMAN, WALT
Title: Leaves of Grass (Modern Library #97. 2, in ML Spine 7)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, [c.1933]. Hardcover. Walt Whitman's collection of his poems was a work in progress; he continuously added new poems to it throughout his life. Includes his 'Memories of Abraham Lincoln', with Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Carl Sandburg has provided an introduction, and with index of first lines. --- In Toledano spine 7 / green balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover torchbearer / gilt spine titling with inter-connected "ML" device / dark green topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style d, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but no total number. Likely published c.1933 (though 1921 date appears in the book). ML #97.2. --- With general age-toning to leaves, small patches of sunning to spine ends, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Brittle dust jacket with original $.95 flap price (which has been inked over), handwritten flap price, chips to extremities (some rather large) and with toning, but remaining mostly intact and in removable mylar protector. Overall, a well-preserved copy of this rather scarce edition.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xvi, 311 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Poetry
Title: Leaves of Grass (Modern Library #97. 2, in ML Spine 7)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, [c.1933]. Hardcover. Walt Whitman's collection of his poems was a work in progress; he continuously added new poems to it throughout his life. Includes his 'Memories of Abraham Lincoln', with Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Carl Sandburg has provided an introduction, and with index of first lines. --- In Toledano spine 7 / green balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover torchbearer / gilt spine titling with inter-connected "ML" device / dark green topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style d, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but no total number. Likely published c.1933 (though 1921 date appears in the book). ML #97.2. --- With general age-toning to leaves, small patches of sunning to spine ends, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Brittle dust jacket with original $.95 flap price (which has been inked over), handwritten flap price, chips to extremities (some rather large) and with toning, but remaining mostly intact and in removable mylar protector. Overall, a well-preserved copy of this rather scarce edition.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xvi, 311 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Poetry
Price: US$ 146.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 85621
- Book number: 85621