Walt Whitman by Allen, gay Wilson by Allen, gay Wilson

Grove Press, 1961. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Evergreen Books. Used - Good. Good condition. With remainder mark.

Light surface and edge wear; light foxing around the edges. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Previous owner's purchase date written inside front cover. No other marks.

Profile Books, 1961. Paperback. Very Good +. Unmarked save for previous owner's name. Card wrappers unworn and uncreased.

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Revised edition, 1969, hardcover, 251pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with some general soil to boards, binding tight, previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG with toning, rubbingmild edgewear.

New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1959. very good+ in softcover; a solid copy of this scarce offprint: vol. 2, no. 2, april-sept 1959. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. 5 x 7".

NY: Grove Press. VG PB. (1961). Since 1868 Whitman had been descending from the "high plateau" reached about that time, before long it would become a . toboggan slide. Primarily the chief difficulty was his health but also in the summer of 1870 he was also emotionally disturbed about some experience or situation which is still a mystery to biographers though they have advanced many theories. On July 15, 1870, sitting at his desk in the Attorney General's office, Whitman scribbled a notation in ink and pencil, using two colors of each (facsimile of note included). Whitman had also written these words about himself, "...an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos. Disorderly fleshy and sensual...eating drinking and breeding. No sentimentalist...no stander above men and women or apart from them...no more modest than immodest." Whitman was "the first American poet to celebrate all humanity and to prophesy that the special destiny of America is the fulfillment of the sacred… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 1961. Softcover. Good. First by grove. Good paperback. First by Grove Press. The book cover edges have minor chipping, covers and foredges have light soiling, front cover has crease at bottom corner, text is clean. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Wayne State University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1969. No Edition Remarks. 251 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth and silver lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Binding remains firm.Pages & plates remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears, and creasing.

New York: Grove Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small trade paperback. 192 pages. Signed on copyright page by Charles Feinburg, to whom th book was dedicated. (Charles E. Feinberg compiled what is arguably the largest collection of Whitman papers extant, a trove he has willingly shared with scholars.) Chronology, Bibliography. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white photographs. First edition, published as Evergreen Profile Book 19. A concise biography, well received by both the scholarly community and the public and often reprinted. . A clean, square, tight and unmarked copy. Very good. .