Walt Whitman
by Schyberg, Frederik
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, green cloth in pale yellow non price-clipped dust-jacket. 387 pages. Translated from the Danish by Evie Allison Allen. Introduction by Gay Wilson Allen. Includes Notes, Bibliography and an Index. First edition, first printing thus. Previous owner's name on front free end-paper. Sporadic underlining to text with occasional brief marginalia. A sound, tight copy of this "objective" literary biography which rejects the often panegyric tendencies of many critics and "demonstrates that Whitman, far from being unique as a poet and mystic, was a type long known to world literature...." A good copy in a worn but good dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020334
- Title
- Walt Whitman
- Author
- Schyberg, Frederik
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Literary Criticism, Walt Whitman
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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- Marginalia
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