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WHITMAN, Walt.. After All, Not to Create Only.. Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1871.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871. 24 [2] pp. 12mo, publisher's limp gilt cloth. First book edition; binding A (no priority). BAL 21405. The text block is detached from the binding, which is soiled; some light dampstaining.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$389.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Binding A (no sequence established), flexible green cloth. Small dark spot on front cover, 2" square area of damp stain on back cover (discernible because of some wrinkling), previous owner's name in ink, tiny scrape inside back cover, Very Good Minus. BAL 21405.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Description: 7.75 x 5, gilt decorated flexible green ribbed cloth, 24pp + pp, covers well worn, delaminating, extremities bumped and farying, couple ink stains on back cover, inner hinges cracked, contents browned and edge worn, but still a FIRST EDITION (BAL 21405, state A).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
WHITMAN, Walt. After All, Not to Create Only. , 1871.
Price: US$660.00 + shipping
Description: WHITMAN, Walt. After All, Not to Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening Their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, Noon, September 7, 1871. Original flexible cloth with gilt decoration. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition. BAL 21405, binding A. Very good or better.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. *Blanck's* Binding A: Terra-cotta flexible (no priority established). Contemporary owner name, front hinge a tad tender, a nice, near fine copy. *BAL* 21405.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WHITMAN, Walt. After All, Not to Create Only. , 1871.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Description: WHITMAN, Walt. After All, Not to Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871. Original stiff cloth wrappers with gilt decloration. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition. BAL 21405. Near fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. vii, [2],10-24, [4]; original green cloth stamped and lettered in gilt on the upper cover, t.e.g. Very slight soiling, otherwise fine and bright. BAL's binding B (no priority), although BAL speculates that this may be a remainder binding, as Whitman, apparently, had not seen a copy so bound. BAL 21405.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. vii, [2],10-24, [4]; original limp green cloth stamped and lettered in gilt on the upper cover, t.e.g., chocolate endpapers. Very slight soiling, otherwise fine and bright. BAL's binding A (no priority). BAL 21405.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition printed in book form [first edition, second issue]; was first published in the form of a broadside in Washington, DC, 1871. 24, [4] pages; 19.8cm; original limp brown cloth binding; gilt title; protected in a custom made linen clam-shell box. American poetry; Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.