Two Prefaces
by Walt Whitman
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1926. 1st thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine first edition thus. Square, internally clean, binding tight. Very minor wear to spine ends. Fading to paper label to top of spine. Comprises Whitman's original preface for Leaves of Grass (1855) and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads (1888). Introductory note by Christopher Fry. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.Overall a lovely copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10363
- Title
- Two Prefaces
- Author
- Walt Whitman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- poetry,
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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.
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- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
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