Grabhorn Press Leaves of Grass, 1930
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Author: Whitman, Walt
Title: Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: 1930
Description:
Author: Whitman, Walt
Title: Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: 1930
Description:
Numerous woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo. (Folio) 36.8x25 cm (14½x9¾"), original half red morocco & wood boards, rebacked with matching modern morocco, raised bands, the original spine title relaid. No. 386 of 400 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn.
The finest printing of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and a masterwork of the Grabhorn Press. Taking over a year to print, "The tremendous impression necessary to print this book so strained the press that the printers suggested the colophon should read: '400 copies printed and the press destroyed'" (Grabhorn Bibliography I). GB 138.
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A little wear and staining to the leather along the joints where rebacked, the title panel of the original spine strip a bit rubbed; free endpaper with normal offset from the wooden boards, light trace of removed bookplate on the front free endpaper, very good, internally clean and fine.
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Grabhorn Press Leaves of Grass, 1930
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