The Master: An Adventure Story
by WHITE, T.H.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [11],12-256,[2]pp. Light wear and gentle sunning to spine ends, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s.net), lightly edgeworn, with a few small tears and attendant creases; Very Good+. Fantasy novel centered around... Read More
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The Elephant and the Kangaroo
by White, T. H.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in green dust jacket; brown and cream patterned endpapers; 254pp; list of White titles facing t.p, ad for Mistress Masham's Repose to jacket rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. A straight copy, pushed at head and tail, very slight spotting to top... Read More
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The Master
by WHITE, T. H.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First U.K. Edition. 8vo. 20cm x 13.5cm. Publisher's slate blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in black to spine and front board, clean and handsome in a bright, strong example of the dustjacket with some minor staining to the verso. A very good copy. 256pp. Internally clean, map endpapers (we love map endpapers). A rather peculiar but... Read More
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![A Joy Proposed: Poems [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/802/790/834790802.0.m.1.jpg)
A Joy Proposed: Poems [Limited Edition]
by WHITE, T.H.; Kurth Sprague, intro
London: Bertram Rota, 1980. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 57. Octavo (25.5cm.); xii,[2],73pp. Jacket very slightly rubbed, else Fine. Collection of 60 poems, including a number previously unpublished.
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![Alone Through the Dark Sea [Presentation Copy, Inscribed and Signed to Ben Shahn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/220/505/1296505220.0.m.jpg)
Alone Through the Dark Sea [Presentation Copy, Inscribed and Signed to Ben Shahn]
by WHITESIDE, Thomas
New York: George Braziller, [1964]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 174pp. General wear to jacket extremities including a few tiny chips, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good and sound. The presentation copy, the dedication page "to Ben Shahn" followed by the author's inscription "from Tom / Sept. '64." Additionally with... Read More
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Outlines Of Psychiatry
by WHITE, William A.
Washington: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1932. 13th ed. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth; [2],vii,[1],468pp. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, ownership signature to front and rear pastedowns. Good to Very Good.
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![Back Down the Ridge [Advance Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/712/263/1565263712.0.m.jpg)
Back Down the Ridge [Advance Review Copy]
by WHITE, W. L.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [x],182pp. Advance slip tipped in at front. Lightly rubbed at corners, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.00), spine-sunned and edgeworn with small chips, Very Good. Account of soldiers' experience in the Korean War. [63573].
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President Coolidge: a Contemporary Estimate
by WHITING, Edward Elwell
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. First Edition. 12mo. Original blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 208pp. Spine gilt very slightly dulled, else a tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. A positive assessment of Coolidge's Presidency by a Boston journalist.
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On the Enforcement of Law in Cities
by WHITLOCK, Brand
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1913]. Small octavo (19.75cm.); original teal decorative boards, unadorned spine; [8],94pp. Spine ends chipped, corners slightly dinged, else Very Good and sound. First published in 1910 during the author's tenure as mayor of Toledo (1906-1914).
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With Walt Whitman in Camden (March 28 - July 14, 1888)
by [WHITMAN] TRAUBEL, Horace
London: Gay & Bird, 1906. First Edition. First printing. British issue, with Gay & Bird imprint on spine and title page (published in America by Small & Maynard). Octavo. Gilt-decorated green cloth; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; xvi,473pp; frontispiece and 33 unnumbered leaves of plates (most tipped-in on sepia stock); facsimile of Whitman's Last Will &... Read More
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Solo
by WHITMORE, Stanford
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1956. First U.K. Edition. 8vo. 20cm x 14cm. Publisher's brown cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, clean and bright with some light bumping to spine ends, in a bright, strong dustjacket with significant spotting to the white portions of the design, and verso. A very good copy. 304pp. Internally clean with some spotting to... Read More
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
by WHITMAN, Walt (poem); COWLEY, Malcolm (introduction)
London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); sage green cloth, titled in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxxviii,[5],6-145,[7]pp. Pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted to front pastedown, with his pervasive light pencil annotations appearing throughout the text. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced 21/- net), with... Read More
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![A Dialogue" [in] The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review vol. XVII, no. 89 [November 1845]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/446/495/1498495446.0.m.jpg)
A Dialogue" [in] The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review vol. XVII, no. 89 [November 1845]
by [WHITMAN, WALT]
New York: J. L. O'Sullivan and O. C. Gardiner, 1845. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Blue printed wrappers; [321]-400,[8]pp; 8pp of ads at rear, and ads to wrappers; steel mezzotint frontispiece portrait. Sound and whole, apart from chips at head and tail; slight foxing to wrappers, but generally clean and bright: Very Good. Contains the first... Read More
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Leaves of Grass Including a Facsimile Autobiography Variorum and a Department of Gathered Leaves
by WHITMAN, Walt
Philadelphia: David McKay, [1900]. Octavo (21cm). Dark blue-green cloth stamped in gilt; [xiv],[11]-567,[1]pp; frontispiece portrait and three leaves of facsimile manuscript (2 folding). Sound and upright, but rubbed at edges with mild superficial abrasion to front board, occasional toning: Very Good. Reprint after Whitman's death by David McKay, his longest-lasting publisher.
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I Sit and Look Out: Editorials from the Brooklyn Daily Times
by WHITMAN, Walt (editorials); Emory Holloway and Vernolian Schwarz (selected and edited by)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth boards, with titling and blocking stamped in white on spine, and blind ruling to front board; [xvi],[2],3-248,[6]pp; photographic engraving frontispiece of Whitman from portrait by Charles Hines. George F. Horner's previous ownership bookplate to front pastedown. Mild shelfwear, with title faded, faint finger-soil, and light... Read More
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Walt Whitman's Blue Book: The 1860-1861 Leaves of Grass Containing His Manuscript Additions and Revisions (In Two Volumes: Volume 1: Facsimile of the Unique Copy in the Oscar Lion Collection of The New York Public Library. Volume II: Textual Analysis by Arthur Golden)
by WHITMAN, Walt; Arthur Golden, ed
New York: New York Public Library, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Two octavo volumes. Blue cloth gilt; [456]+428pp. Very clean, unmarked set, about Fine. In the original publisher's slipcase, gently rubbed at corners; Near Fine.
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Leaves of Grass
by WHITMAN, Walt (text); DANIEL, Lewis C. (illustrations); MORLEY, Christopher (introduction)
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1940. First Edition Thus. Quarto (28cm); green buckram, with title label mounted to spine; green topstain; publisher's original slipcase; xvi,316,[2]pp. Some of the usual sunning to spine, upper rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), else clean internally; Very Good+ or better. Slipcase lightly shelfworn, title label gently sunned, with a... Read More
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![The Angel of Tears" [in] The United States Magazine and Democratic Review vol. XI, no. LI [September 1842]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/584/737/1567737584.0.m.jpg)
The Angel of Tears" [in] The United States Magazine and Democratic Review vol. XI, no. LI [September 1842]
by [WHITMAN, WALT]
New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1842. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm). Tan printed paper wrappers; [223]-334; ads to wrappers; frontispiece. Ownership inscription of R. E. Temple, Esq. to front. LIghtly rubbed and dustsoiled, minor chips to spine ends, but generally sound and whole: Very Good. Contains the first appearance of "The Angel of Tears,"... Read More
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Walt Whitman and the Body Beautiful
by [WHITMAN, Walt] ASPIZ, Harold
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xiv],[2],3-290pp. Publisher's glue affecting final pages, else a Fine copy. Dustwrapper has hint of sunning to spine, tiny nick on rear panel, and rubbing at flap folds; Near Fine. Explores Whitman's persona, physical self, and experiences... Read More
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![Proud Music of the Sea-Storm" [in] The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. XXIII No. CXXXVI [February 1869]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/300/739/1567739300.0.m.jpg)
Proud Music of the Sea-Storm" [in] The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. XXIII No. CXXXVI [February 1869]
by [WHITMAN, WALT]
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1869. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (25cm). Pale orange printed wrappers; [137]-264,[4],8pp; 12pp of advertising at rear, 1 tipped-in leaf at front, and ads to rear wrapper. Remnants of contemporary delivery label to front wrapper. Short tear to lower front joint, chipped at head, but generally sound and clean: Very Good. Contains... Read More
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![Life and Work of Walt Whitman: A Soviet View [Inscribed to Alvah Bessie, Hollywood Ten]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/107/657/1653657107.0.m.jpg)
Life and Work of Walt Whitman: A Soviet View [Inscribed to Alvah Bessie, Hollywood Ten]
by [WHITMAN, Walt] MENDELSON, Maurice (text); Andrew Bromfield (translation); G. Dauman (illustrations)
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); white cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black, navy blue, and gilt on spine and front cover; [6],7-347,[5]pp; black and white photograph (halftone) frontispiece. Inscribed by Mendelson on half title, "For Alvah Bessie / as a most talented American writer and a faithful friend of the... Read More
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![The United States Magazine and Democratic Review Vol. X [1842]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/429/495/1498495429.0.m.jpg)
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review Vol. X [1842]
by [WHITMAN, WALT]
New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1842. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Original plum half-calf with marbled paper over boards, all edges lightly sprinkled red; blue marbled endpapers; [iv],612pp; 6 pl. Rubbed, faded at spine, with scattered minor foxing, but sound and clean: Very Good. Contains the first appearances of five short stories by Whitman: "The Tomb-Blossoms,"... Read More
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![Old Age Echoes" and "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda" in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine [March 1891]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/145/117/1574117145.0.m.jpg)
Old Age Echoes" and "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda" in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine [March 1891]
by WHITMAN, Walt; Horace Traubel
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1891. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Cream paper wrappers; a-b, 24, 283-442,25-54pp; numerous advertisements. Rear wrapper detached, front wrapper mostly detached, numerous chips to edges, internally clean and sound: Good. Contains the first appearances of a poem and a prose piece by Walt Whitman (pp. 376-381) and a piece on the poet... Read More
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Intercept
by WHITNEY, Bevan
London: Robert Hale, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; 63pp. Minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers, and edges of textblock with trivial foxing to margins of textblock. Mild dust soiling to top and bottom edges of boards, foot of board spine lightly bumped. A tight, clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket showing some minor foxing to margins... Read More
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The Black Hawk War 1831-1832
by WHITNEY, Ellen M. (ed.)
Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1970. First Edition. First printings. Octavo (24cm). Four volumes in blue cloth, titled in gilt on spines; I: xxvi,682pp; II: xxii,660pp; III: [xvi],661-1358pp; IV: [x],[1359]-1541,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed at spine ends, else clean and fresh: a Fine set. Collections of the Illinois State Historical LIbrary vols XXXV-XXXVIII. Edition of a selection... Read More
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