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Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads

Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads by WHITMAN, WALT

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads
Author
WHITMAN, WALT
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Philadelphia: Printed by Ferguson Bros. and Co, 1889. First edition. Original wrap-around leather. Very Good. SCARCE 70TH BIRTHDAY EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES SIGNED BY WHITMAN. THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL LEATHER WRAP-AROUND BAND. The collector of Walt Whitman is hard pressed to choose which edition of Leaves of Grass best represents the poet’s vision of his works. After all, Whitman famously attended each of the printings of his poems like a parent in the delivery room during the birth of each child. Is one child more valuable than the next? As with each delivery, each printing of Leaves of Grass contained its own set of complications and circumstances, be it lack of funds, paper shortages, war, or other issues. From early on, however, Whitman had a vision for Leaves of Grass, a vision that he needed to compromise time and again to accommodate the reality of his publishing circumstances. It was not until his 70th birthday edition in 1889 that the stars aligned and Whitman was finally able to print Leaves of Grass as he had always wanted – an edition that embodied his vision of the book. Whitman saw himself as a pastor creating a New Bible and in this special birthday edition he took this vision quite literally, as he presented Leaves of Grass as one would present a Bible, using “Oxford Bible Paper,” and a Biblical black leather cover with a wraparound tongue flap and pocket in the back. Only 300 copies were printed, but fairly soon into the printing, Whitman was persuaded by his close friend Dr. Richard Bucke to stop binding copies with the wraparound flap, so far fewer than the original 300 contain this unique aspect of his vision. Unlike Whitman’s earlier editions full of sometimes playful book art and fonts, the 1889 edition insists it is to be taken very seriously, perhaps as seriously as one might take the Bible. The text, of course, includes the same radicalism as the earlier editions, but this time his radicalism is not to be interpreted as whimsy, but as high seriousness, even scripture. Yet, despite the solemnity of the presentation of this edition, Whitman reminds us that this Biblical vision is his very precious child as he introduces the edition with the words: “the volume is more A PERSON than a book. And for testimony to all, (and good measure,) I here with pen and ink append my name" and then signed each copy in ink, "Walt Whitman". Philadelphia: Printed by Ferguson Bros. and Co. for the Author. Small octavo (approx. 124x180 mm), original publisher's morocco with wraparound band and rear pocket; custom box. Complete with portrait frontispiece. Some scuffing to leather, small separation at joint at base of spine. Due to its somewhat fragile design, this edition is usually found in dreadful condition. This copy is by far the nicest we've ever seen. A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES OF LEAVES OF GRASS.
The Revolt of the Cockroach People

The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Acosta, Oscar Zeta

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Title
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Author
Acosta, Oscar Zeta
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Oscar Zeta Acosta on the front pastedown and inscribed, "To my old friend Althea, the African Queen. Jan '74 Aztlan." 258 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth decorated in blind and lettered in white on the spine. Very Good, slightly bumped corners, slight lean and a bowing to boards, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and soiling and rubbing to extremities. The scarce semi-autobiographical Chicano Movement-themed novel, signed by Acosta. The radical lawyer and activist was fictionalized by Hunter S. Thompson as drug-gobbling "Dr. Gonzo" in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and disappeared the year he signed this book.
Black Man in America: An Interview with James Baldwin (Original LP)

Black Man in America: An Interview with James Baldwin (Original LP) by Baldwin, James

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Title
Black Man in America: An Interview with James Baldwin (Original LP)
Author
Baldwin, James
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Cambridge, MA: Credo, 1962. Original pressing. Credo 1. Good album with some scratches in a Good sleeve,creased corner, stain on front cover.An uncommon album of the African American author James Baldwin being interviewed by sociologist Studs Terkel, recorded at WFMT in Chicago. Baldwin's thoughts on race have been referenced widely with the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas by WODEHOUSE, P. G.

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
Laughing Gas
Author
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1936. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; 311,[9]pp; 8pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight copy, rubbed at edges, spine faded, edges of textblock lightly foxed: around Very Good. MCILVAINE A56a.
The Old Reliable

The Old Reliable by WODEHOUSE, P.G.

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
The Old Reliable
Author
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1951. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [9],10-234 + [2]pp ads. Light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine, with faint foxing to text edges, preliminary, and terminal leaves, and a short tear at upper front endpaper; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. A novel in which Wodehouse tackles Hollywood life, first serialized in Collier's magazine. MCILVAINE A71a.
[AGRICULTURE] A GUIDE TO THE ORCHARD AND KITCHEN GARDEN; or, Account of the Most Valuable Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated IN GREAT BRITAIN

[AGRICULTURE] A GUIDE TO THE ORCHARD AND KITCHEN GARDEN; or, Account of the Most Valuable Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated IN GREAT BRITAIN by Lindley, George

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Title
[AGRICULTURE] A GUIDE TO THE ORCHARD AND KITCHEN GARDEN; or, Account of the Most Valuable Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated IN GREAT BRITAIN
Author
Lindley, George
Seller
lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition
Brown cloth covered boards. Very good
Description
London: LONGMAN, REES, BROWN, AND GREEN, 1831. Hardcover. Brown cloth covered boards. Very good. 601 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. Owner's signature on front free end paper. Providing month-by-month tasks for keeping orchards and vegetable gardens productive. This book is notable for cataloguing old and rare varieties, some of which are little-known or forgotten today. Accounts of apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, apricots, grapes, and many lesser-grown fruits. Detailed notes on vegetables including potatoes, carrots, turnips, onions, and more. Ex. libris, with some small pencil marks on margins. Rebound with original spine.
Oryx and Crake [Inscribed and Signed]

Oryx and Crake [Inscribed and Signed] by Margaret Atwood

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Title
Oryx and Crake [Inscribed and Signed]
Author
Margaret Atwood
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780771008689
Condition
Very Good
Description
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: M&S [McClelland & Stewart Ltd], 2003. Very Good/Very Good -. Toronto: M&S, 2003. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [12],378pp. Light shelf wear, rather heavy dampstaining to dust jacket verso not visible externally or affecting binding or textblock, shallow sunning along board margins, corners nudged; a Very Good copy in About Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed on title page, "For Hank - best wishes - Margaret Atwood.

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