![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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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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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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![Reds in America: the Present Status of the Revolutionary Movement in the United States [&c]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/805/795/1684795805.0.m.jpg)
Reds in America: the Present Status of the Revolutionary Movement in the United States [&c]
by WHITNEY, R.M.
Boston: Western Islands, (1970). Reprint. Reissue of the 1924 first edition, with a new foreword by Thomas J Haas. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 284pp. Tight, unmarked, Ner Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extremities, Very Good. Reprint of a popular anti-Bolshevik polemic, based on documents seized in the Bridgman raid of 1922.
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![Reds in America: the Present Status of the Revolutionary Movement in the United States [&c]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/800/795/1684795800.0.m.jpg)
Reds in America: the Present Status of the Revolutionary Movement in the United States [&c]
by WHITNEY, R.M. [Richard Merrill]
New York: Beckwith Press, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; 287pp, including color frontispiece. Tight, Very Good+ copy, just a trifle sunned at board edges. Well-preserved copy of this anti-Bolshevik polemic, based on documents seized in the Bridgman raid of 1922.
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Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First Edition. Second state. Twelvemo. 18.5cm. Publisher's original maroon cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 52pp. Sunning to spine panel, some wear and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Strong and solid, a very good copy. Internally clean. Coated endpapers, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. Some light spotting to... Read More
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Eighty-Second Anniversary Celebration of the New-Engand Society of New York at Delmonico's, Dec. 22 1887
by [WHITTIER, John Greenleaf] NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
[NY: New England Society of New York, 1888]. First Edition. Octavo. Printed buff paper wrappers; 99pp. Fine copy. Includes (p.46) the first printing of a letter by Whittier. BAL 22111.
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Whittier on Writers and Writing. The uncollected critical writings of John Greenleaf Whittier
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (Edwin Harrison Cady and Harry Hayden Clark, eds)
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1950. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover) in original unprinted glassine dustwrapper; 219pp. Fine, in slightly yellowed and chipped glassine.
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Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First Edition. First printing. Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt; pale yellow endpapers; [vi],304,8pp; 8pp publisher's catalogue tipped in at rear, dated September 1854. Several former owners' names to front endpapers. Straight and sound, gently rubbed, endpapers and flyleaves foxed: Very Good. BAL 21769.
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National Lyrics
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition. Blanck's first printing, with 1865 date on cover and ads for "Enoch Arden" inside rear wrapper. Edition of 6800 copies (not all in wrappers). 12mo. Original sewn, engraved wrappers; 104pp; illus. Old amateur spine repair; mild wear to wrapper edges; occasional mild soil and staining within. A sound, good or better copy,... Read More
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Historic Kansas: a Centennial Sketchbook
by WHITTEMORE, Margaret
Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, (1969). Later printing (originally published in 1954). Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 223pp; illus. Clean, tight, and unmarked; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.50 on front flap); slightly rubbed, especially at corners and flap-folds; Very Good. Survey of surviving landmarks of early Kansas history, with illustrations by the author.
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FURIOSO Vol. VII, No. 2 (Spring 1952)
by Whittemore, Reed (ed.); William [W. S.] Merwin, Hayden Carruth, Turner Cassity, Babette Deutsch, et al.
Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1952. First Edition. Wraps; 80 pp. A poem [preceding his first book] by W. S. Merwin: "Hermione On Simulacra"; poems by Carruth, Deutsch, Cassity and others. Spine toned, soiled, light wear, about very good.
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HEROES & HEROINES
by Whittemore, Reed
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover in red cloth boards. Black and white illustrated jacket. 8vo: 80pp. (with last leaf uncut); illus. Light scuffing to boards, wear at head and tail of spine. Clean interior. Wear to dustwrapper (not price-clipped) with toning, chips, and small amount of loss at spine and rear panel; Very Good/Very Good.... Read More
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FURIOSO Vol. VII, No. 1 (Winter 1952)
by Whittemore, Reed (ed.); Francis Berry, et al.
Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1952. First Edition. Wraps; 72 pp. Poetry from Berry (a long poem) and others, and the short prose. The best of this volume, the reviews: Kenner on Pound, a review of K. Mansfield's letters, and Faulkner's latest REQUIEM FOR A NUN, with a prefatorial "play" by Frederick Gwynn: REQUIEM FOR FIVE RUNS (or Temple Drake... Read More
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FURIOSO Vol. VII, No. 4 (Fall 1952)
by Whittemore, Reed (ed.); Harvey Shapiro; Francis Golffing; Daniel Hoffman et al.
Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1952. First Edition. Wraps; 72 pp. Aphorisims by Golffing; poems by Hoffman and a review by Harvey Shapiro of Roethke's PRAISE TO THE END! Toned, light wear, else very good.
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FURIOSO, Vol. VI, No. 4 (Fall 1951)
by Whittemore, Reed (ed.); Isabella Gardner, James Schevill, Edwin Honig, et al.
Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1951. First Edition. Fall 1951. Wraps; 88 pp. Poetry from Schevill, Gardner, Honig and others, including reviews by Fitts (on Lowell) and Eberhart. Index for vols. V,VI. Spine toned, light toning, but very good.
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FURIOSO Vol. VI, No. 3 (Summer 1951)
by Whittemore, Reed (ed.); Weldon Kees, et al.
Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1951. First Edition. Summer 1951. Wraps; 80 pp. A fine Weldon Kees poem "The Beach In August", ending "One thinks about the human condition. The tide goes in and goes out". Spine toned, soiled, light toning, but very good.
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FURIOSO Vol. VI, No. 1 (Winter 1951)
by Whittemore, Reed (ed.); Isabella Gardner, Harold Norse, Philip Booth, et al.
Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1951. First Edition. Wraps; 72 pp. Poetry from Booth ("Homage to Cummings", a tribute in eec's style), Gardner, and Norse ("Colloquy of Time and Place" and "Graduate School"), and the usual gret reviews including a long one by Whittemore of the first three books of PATERSON. Spine toned, light toning, but very good.
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![THE MOTHER'S BREAST & THE FATHER'S HOUSE [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/947/543/1581543947.0.m.jpg)
THE MOTHER'S BREAST & THE FATHER'S HOUSE [Inscribed]
by Whittemore, Reed
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Hardcover in tan and black cloth boards; white plain printed dustjacket; 8vo; 109 pp. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on the half-title: "For ____/ with best wishes and many thanks for many kindnesses / Reed Whittemore / October 10, 1974." Top of spine rubbed; small amount of foxing... Read More
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