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Price: US$9.99 + shipping
Description: Slipcase is in poor condition but still intact, corners are splitting, wear and small stains. Wear to cover, bumped corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. There is a previous owner's name on the inside. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.
Seller: Firefly Bookstore, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO, NEW YORK, 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: woven green burlap cover, pages clean, color and b/w illustrations, general wear, hinges slightly loose DATE PUBLISHED: 1940 EDITION: 316
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman; Christopher Morley, ed. LEAVES OF GRASS. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, New York, 1940.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 316p. A large hardcover book in FAIR condition. Back cover is cracking off; spine is tanned and worn along the edges. Owner's gift inscription on front endpaper and pencil doodle on back endpaper. Speckly stains on front endpaper as well. Text itself is clean and pages tightly bound, despite damaged cover. Illustrated by Lewis C. Daniel. Measures approx. 11" x 8.25"
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, New York, London, & Toronto, 1940.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. Clean text, breaks in the spine. Buckram covers, yellowing on the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, New York, 1940.
Price: US$22.73 + shipping
Description: Includes illustrations. Book Condition: Very good. In very good slip case. Signature on front end page. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 x 11 in. Green burlap boards. In original green slipcase. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean but sunned at spine and edges. Spine edges and corners are worn. Binding tight. PO's bookplate on pastedown, name on ffep. Text clean. In a mylar wrapper. Slipcase is excellent. Poet. Stax.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burlap green cloth, title, etc. on pastedown on spine, discoloration to spine and edges, 8-1/4" x 11" (28 x 21.5 cm) Top pages tinted green. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel, black and white and color full page illustrations throughout. 316 pp.
Seller: Toadlily Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. 316, [2] pp. Numerous plates (many in colour). Green linen, printed paper spine labl (mnr sunng to spine), still a VG- copy preserved in open-backd slipcase, from the library of the former Oregonian editor & reviewer, Malcolm Bauer. Early printing of the American Poet's most famed work.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. xiii ((iii), 316p. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrated by Lewis C. Daniel with full-page plates in color and black & white. Bound in full green burlap with paper spine label. Spine evenly faded, else fine in slipcase with fade and wear
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1940 (date "MCMXL" on title page). First Edition Thus. This edition contains a selection of 61 poems (selected by Christopher Morley) out of the 423 found in the Random House (Grabhorn Press) limited edition of 1930. NOTE: Doubleday produced two bindings for this edition: one, which is of full buckram with green boards and tan spine, from the Haddon Craftsmen, with a slipcase; and the second, of which this copy is one, of green close woven cloth, from the Kingsport Press, which does not appear to have come with a slipcase. Both are of the same dimensions. This copy is Near Fine with no dust jacket and no slipcase. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with green topstain, ten (10) color plates and 21 black-and-white plates by Lewis C. Daniel on unnumbered pages, no markings of any kind, but dampstains to the bottom one inch or so of about a third of the pages. The Binding is full green cloth with paste-on title, etc., to spine, all corners square, and some loss of color at the heel of the spine. See photos. 316 + i + 31 pages of plates. 8 5/8" x 11". This particular copy was sold by the Book-of-the-Month Club on January 15, 1943, as evidenced by an invoice which is still in the book. NOTE: This book weighs 1.38 kg. / 3 lb., 1 oz., is of quarto size, and will require extra postage.
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday Doran & Co., New York, 1940.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: What an interesting volume! This large, heavy book is covered in burlap! The greenish blue cloth is gold colored from sun exposure from the spine around to about a third of the front and back cover, making an attractive pattern. The spine with its paste down title slightly faded but intact. Internally it is in wonderful condition with lots of spectacular color and black and white illustrations and except for some tanning of the overleaves, no other marks or flaws. Great book.
Seller: Big E's Books, Lake City, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.57 + shipping
Description: XVI-316 páginas, 1 hoja. Ilustrado con 20 láminas con dibujos en negro y 9 en color por Lewis C. Daniel. Encuadernación editorial en tela arpillera verde, lomo algo rozado, pero buen estado. Etiqueta y sellos de la Bibl. Inst. Int. 28x21 cm.
Seller: Llibreria Antiquària Delstres, Canet de Mar, BCN, Spain
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Whitman's most famous work, brilliantly illustrated with pen-and-ink & watercolor sketches by Lewis C. Daniel. In 316 pages + 9 prefatory pages by editor Christopher Morley, "An Introduction to the Leaves;" Morley also made the selections for inclusion here from Whitman's larger work & describes "art as a love letter.'' First publication in this format (First, thus), the First Printing from 1940. Oversized hardcover has green nubby-textured cloth-covered boards & is in Good+ condition, downgraded due to 1) heavy fading (to a tan color) around all edges & spine, 2) cloth is starting to split at head of spine-front cover interface, 3) paper pastedown title box to spine is heavily tanned & lightly chipped. Interior is nice & clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure. Old gift inscription dated 1941 on ffep; NO other writing or underlining or highlighting; not ex-lib. This edition originally came in a slipcase, which is NOT present; no DJ, as issued. Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays Pacific time; later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: book is too large for expedited domestic or any international shipping without preapproval of extra (at least double) postage due to USPS rates.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, 1940.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1940. Hardcover green Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. Daniel, Lewis C. (illustrator). Edition not Stated, nor a month stated so it is the first edition of this 1940 edition. This large 316 pp. edition of an American classic has beautiful full page color and b&w pen and ink illustrations. The book cover, in accordance with the title, is bound in burlap weave green cloth, and the spine is faded. The slipcase is in fair condition, it is held together at the top with clear tape. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. No writing in the book and binding is tight.
Seller: Memphrebooks, Magog, QC, Canada
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xiii, 316 pages. 28 cm. (4to.) Green burlap like boards with title on paste down strip on spine (spine sunned to brown). Decorative end papers (strip of green leaves). Top edge dark green. Illustrated with 30 out-of-text full-page drawings by Lewis C. Daniel, some in color, some in b/w "reproduced in Similetone and Intaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company". Printed on thick paper (made by the P.H. Glalfelter Company). Book is unmarked, tight and clean. NOTE : Large and heavy book (1.5 kg), may need extra shipping
Seller: 2Wakefield, Wakefield, QC, Canada
Price: US$47.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: LCCN: 40-13878 ; xiii, 316 p., [30] leaves of plates : p., ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. ; OCLC: 759929 ; grass-like plaited green cloth, with pasted paper labels ; spine sunned ; bookplate on front ep ; foxed ; in nicked and sunned slipcase ; G/G
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran and co., New York, 1940.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good+. Illustrated by Lewis C. Daniel (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition. Green burlap covered boards with a paper spine label. The text pages are clean with typical age toning. No writing, not ex-library, no markings. Tight square binding. Illustrated throughout by Lewis C. Daniel. Light fading/sunning to the spine and spine joints of the outside covers.Pictures on request.
Seller: The Book Source, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Xvi, 316 Pp. Green Burlap With Paper Spine Label Printed In Green, Decorated Endpapers, Top Edge Stained Green, In Green Slipcase With Paper Spine Label. No Wear Or Marks To Book, But Spine Cloth Faded. Slipcase With Some Wear, No Splits, Slight Browning To Spie Label.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman Lewis Daniel. Walt Whitman LEAVES OF GRASS. Doubleday Doran 1940 in Slipcase, 1940.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Age related wear, but unused.pages perfect Stored new Photos of book emailed upon request
Seller: BooksByLisa, Highland Park, IL, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt; Morley, Christopher. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940.
Price: US$71.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very good in worn publisher's slipcase. Spine toned as usual, slipcase repaired on label edge, 1 inch splits to slipcase corners along opening and some loss from label edge corners, front slipcase panel heavily rubbed. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1940 Hard Cover. xiii, 316 pp. Original green boards designed to emulate grass, paper spine label, issued in green slipcase with paper label. Beautiful color and black-and-white illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel created specially for this edition. Introduction by Christopher Morley. From colophon: 'This edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was planned by Richard Ellis and produced under his direction. The illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel were reproduced in Similetone and Instaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company of Long Island City. The paper was specially made for this new edition by the P. H. Glatfelter Company of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. The Composition, Printing and Binding by The Haddon Craftsmen of Camden, New Jersey.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt; Morley, Christopher. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940.
Price: US$81.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine toned as usual, slipcase lightly rubbed and soiled with fading along edges, two faint spots along bottom slipcase edge, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. xiii, 316 pp. Original green boards designed to emulate grass, paper spine label, issued in green slipcase with paper label. Beautiful color and black-and-white illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel created specially for this edition. Introduction by Christopher Morley. From colophon: 'This edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was planned by Richard Ellis and produced under his direction. The illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel were reproduced in Similetone and Instaprint by the Zeese-Wilkinson Company of Long Island City. The paper was specially made for this new edition by the P. H. Glatfelter Company of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. The Composition, Printing and Binding by The Haddon Craftsmen of Camden, New Jersey.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (28cm); green buckram, with title label mounted to spine; green topstain; publisher's original slipcase; xvi,316,[2]pp. Some of the usual sunning to spine, upper rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), else clean internally; Very Good+ or better. Slipcase lightly shelfworn, title label gently sunned, with a few bumps and bruises; Very Good+. Handsome edition of Whitman's much-loved poem, with an introduction by Christopher Morley, and illustrations throughout by Lewis C. Daniel. MYERSON C70.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.43 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. xiii, 316, [1]. 30 plates (several colour). buckram (covers faded & owner's name on front blank).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1940.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Selected and with introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. 4to. Green burlap with paper spine label, slipcase with paper label. xiii, 316pp. Full-page illustrations (some color). Very good/very good. Binding spine typically a bit sunned; slipcase quite rubbed but strong. First of this edition with Daniel illustrations, tight and attractive. Daniel's many full-page plates are evocative and spectacular.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/N, hc, used, coarse green cloth binding, v-xiii, 316pp. Interior clean no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. No wear to exterior, spine sunned to brown, paper label on book spine still present and in VG condition. Slight shelf wear to slipcase, good condition, small area of discoloration on the ack of the slipcase.
Seller: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine copy in the original Dutch linen in slip-case, covers are done is a coarse green buckram with the look and feel of grass. Spine cover a bit sun-toned. Text block tight and complete. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Near Fine condition basketweave green cloth hardcover. In original slipcase with some fading evident Some fading of cloth at spine but paper label on spine intact and in Very good condition. 316 pages
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$104.70 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original Dutch linen in slip-case. Spine cover sun-toned. Case edges slightly rubbed and worn as with age (with some loss). Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 316 pages; Description : xiii, 316 p. : col. Ill. ; 26 cm. Subjects: English poetry --American authors --19th century. 3 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$124.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original Dutch linen in slip-case. Spine cover sun-toned. Case edges slightly rubbed and worn as with age (with some loss). Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 316 pages; Description : xiii, 316 p. : col. Ill. ; 26 cm. Subjects: English poetry --American authors --19th century. 3 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., New York, 1940.
Price: US$131.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sixty-one selections by Whitman with an introduction by Christopher Morley. 316 pp. Boards are covered in green burlap like cloth with spine faded to brown, title pastedown on spine (and on slipcase). Ep's have vertical, decorative green band, leaves of grass, on front pastedown and verso rfep. Daniel's glorious illustration are full page and both in b/w and colour. fo has written in pencil ffep," free Book of the Month Club, December17, 1942." I suspect it was a seasonal gift from the BOMC to its loyal customers, of whom this lady, with a vast library of their offerings, was certainly one. Whether it, itself is a Book Club offering is uncertain. There is nothing to indicate that. Bluish-green slipcase is sunned, soiled and scuffed, but it has done an admirable job! Book weighs over 3 1/2 lb. and will incur extra shipping costs. Did I mention Whitman's poerty ? Bookseller's Inventory # 122510
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Walt Whitman; Christopher Morley. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., New York, 1940.
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A colourfully illustrated edition of Walt Whitman's monumental poetry collection, a smart edition illustrated by Lewis C. Daniel. 'Leaves of Grass' is a poetry collection by Walt Whitman, an American poet who spent most of his writing live writing and rewriting this work. The poems in the volume are loosely connected, representing Whitman's philosophy of life and humanity, and discussing delight in sensual pleasures, despite the displays of which were considered immoral at the time of the original publication of this work.Illustrated with ten colour plates, and twenty monochrome plates.This edition with an introduction by Christopher Morley, with illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel.Without the slipcase.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Spine and head of the front board are faded. A couple of small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Doubleday, New York, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A large, very comfortable edition of Whitman's classic, with numerous fullpage illustrations, both color and b/w. Green cloth bindng. Book condition: Light foxing, else Near Fine.
Seller: KECBooks, NEW ORLEANS, LA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good book, with no dust jacket. Book has great illustrations of Whitman's classic by Lewis C. Daniel. There is damage to the spine cover top and bottom, but book is solid and secure, with clean pages.
Seller: Merchant Means, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Special Edition printed on paper made for this edition. 8 3/8"x11". A Fine copy in deep green burlap, spine label, in publisher's matching green paper slipcase, without dustwrapper as issued. Very slight dulling of cloth along spine. Beautiful copy! Q15076
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$367.52 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Doubleday, Doran & CO., INC: New York, 1940. Illustrations are stunning. Condition: As New. All pages are crisp and clean. In its own slip case. Seller Inventory # LPP-00018
Seller: Night light, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Walt Whitman. LEAVES OF GRASS. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, New York, 1940.
Price: US$444.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good slipcase. Faint foxing along slipcase panels. Chipping on bottom slipcase edge. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.