Song of the Broad-Axe by Whitman, Walt - 2020

NY; Columbia University Press, 1927, unstated first edition. Hardcover in good+ condition. Ex-library book. Library stamp on front flyleaf. I[llustrated with woodcuts by Allen Lewis. Cover is lightly soiled (see photo). Decorative paper boards with linen spine and paper label.
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(Carrollton, OH): Press on Scroll Road, 2011. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label, fore-edge uncut. Press on Scroll Road. 4to. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label, fore-edge uncut. (x), 30, (4) pages. Limited to 60 numbered copies. Table of contents. Engravings by Abigail Rorer. Bound by Priscilla Spitler with marbled papers by Pamela Smith. Three of Whitman's poems taken from the Oxford World's Classics edition of Leaves of Grass (1998). A fine copy.

New York, 1865. 7 1 4 x 4 1 2 inches. 72pp. Original publisher's brown sand-grain cloth with blind-stamped triple-rule frame, front cover with bold gilt-blocked circular background in horizontal weave, surrounded by single circular gilt frame; the back cover with exact same motif, but in blind. A FINE COPY, with virtually no signs of wear. PRESENTATION COPY FROM WALT WHITMAN TO A NEIGHBOR BOY, LEONARD HORNER, in the hand of the recipient (though as an older man), as follows: "Presented to Leonard Horner by Walt Whitman- (in Person) Jan - 1885-- (to be given to his Mother),î written in wavering hand on the front free fly. As well, there is are signature initials on the upper right of the same page, "PEH," more than likely the party to which Horner later presented the book. Regarding this superb Presentation, Ted Genoways, Whitman scholar, makes these following fascinating observations: ìThe name ìWm. Leonard Hornerî (apparently in his own hand) appears in one of Whitmanís notebooks… Read More