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Salut au Monde! (from "Leaves of Grass")
by Whitman, Walt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus, limited. Hardcover. Very Good+. Vojtéch Preissig. Folio (15.5"x12"). 25pp. Typographic paper-covered boards. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers. Sun-darkened left margin of upper cover. Soiled topedge of textblock. Corners rubbed with boards exposed. Foxed endpapers & last blank leaves, pages toned. 3-color linoleum cuts, with tissue. Designed & illustrated by Vojtéch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 109 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 1 from the New Fine Book Series.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3445
- Title
- Salut au Monde! (from "Leaves of Grass")
- Author
- Whitman, Walt
- Illustrator
- Vojtéch Preissig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus, limited
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings; Signed Firsts;
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About the Seller
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About Downtown Books & News
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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