WALT WHITMAN: AN AMERICAN. A Study in Biography
by (Whitman, Walt). Canby, Henry Seidel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943.. 1943.. Good. - Octavo, gray cloth, in a dust wrapper. The binding is very lightly bumped with the spine & extremities slightly darkened. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with a long tear to the head of the spine & the adjacent edge of the front panel. The surface of small areas of the front panel has been rubbed away. viii, [i] & 381 pages. There is an owner's book label on the front pastedown & offsetting to both pastedowns & endpapers. The page edges are slightly darkened. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece & 15 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Good in a fair dust wrapper. <p>First edition.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10947
- Title
- WALT WHITMAN: AN AMERICAN. A Study in Biography
- Author
- (Whitman, Walt). Canby, Henry Seidel
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943.
- Date Published
- 1943.
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; AMERICAN; POET; WALT WHITMAN: AN AMERICAN; BIOGRAPHY; LITERARY CRITICISM; HENRY SEIDEL CANBY; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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