Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This set is in good condition. There are no signatures, bookplates, or markings of any other kind. The pages are clean and free of foxing. There is some rubbing to the edges of the spines. This set is a Limited edition signed by Edward Weston, printed by The Limited Editions Club in 1942. It is illustrated with black and white photographs by Edward Weston.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volume set. No. 815 of 1,500 copies. Signed by Edward Weston on limitation page. Plates made by Pioneer-Moss, paper by Worthy, binding by Russell-Rutter. Printed at the shop of the Aldus Printers in New York. Very light wear at tips of spine. In VG dark brown slipcase with title label on spine; title label has a few small rubbed spots. ; 9-1/8" x 12-1/8"
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: . . . . #825 of 1500 copies, signed by Edward Weston on the limitation page. Folio, hardcover. No dj. Near fine condition. Slight rubbing to slipcase and spines; slipcase label slightly dulled. Covers clean and unworn, contents free of writing or marling. American, Editions, Limited, Literature, Photography, Signed,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$785.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 264 pages; [SIGNED] 1942 The Limited Editions Club. 2 volumes, oversize 4to in publisher's slipcase. #605 of 1500 copies issued, signed by Edward Weston on the limitation leaf at rear of Vol II. Soundly bound in original toned photo illustrated paper covered boards with leather title labels to spines. Light/moserate shelf rubbing to edges of leather spine labels and just mild shelf rub to paper over boards at spine ends and corner tips. Publisher's brown cloth covered slipace a little shelf rubbed at edges and with some mild silverfish predation patchiness to edges; paper title label to closed end is lightly rubbed at edges. Illustrated with 49 Weston photographs made for this issue of Leaves, printed in half-tone on coated stock. Mild shelf tap to lower front corner of slipcase and boards. A little worn but sound and clean in original slipcase. A significant and important example of the modern illustrated book. Sigend by Weston. VG- thus . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. ; Signed by Illustrator Hardcover 2 volumes in slipcase
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes bound in original decorative green covers. Each spine has a brown leather label with the title stamped in gilt. Hinges & text tight & intact. Leaves are bright & clean. In a two toned VG green slipcase. Illustrated with glossy black & white photographs by Edward Weston specially commissioned for this book. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. Limited edition: #12 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Each volume signed on front endpaper by original owner, "Joel Climenhaga, December 3,1942". Light scuffing along spine & edges. Poetry, Photography. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 387 pages; Signed by Photographer
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
WHITMAN (Walt). LEAVES OF GRASS. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942.
Price: US$881.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edition en 2 tomes illustrée hors texte de 49 photographies d’Edward Weston, dont une en frontispice de chaque volume. Cette même image est reprise, imprimée en vert, pour le cartonnage. Introduction de Mark Van Doren. -- Tirage à 1500 exemplaires sur papier vert pâle, numérotés et signés par Weston. Insérés le prospectus et le bulletin mensuel de l’éditeur présentant l’ouvrage. >>Bon exemplaire complet de l'étui.
Seller: Librairie-Galerie Emmanuel Hutin, Paris, France
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 2 vols.; G+; full contemporary green paper bindings; spines with calf labels with gilt lettering; housed in G- brown cloth slipcase; slipcase split at lower and left-hand edges of spine; some shelf wear and soiling to volumes; some wear to crowns and tails of spines of both vols.; vol. 2 spine dented at center; previous owner's name at front free endpapers; contains black and white photos; signed flat by Weston at colophon; hand-numbered 369 at colophon; pages clean; shelved Case 9 3/4. 1352600. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Limited Editions Club, Inc., New York, 1942. First edition thus. First printing thus. Two volumes in slipcase. Near-fine copies in a near-fine slipcase. A clean copy, with small, neat bookseller plate on lower corner of front pastedowns of both volumes. Note: Wear to extremities of both copies and slipcase (as pictured). Slight must odor. This copy is #1004, of just 1500, of the limited edition signed by Weston, the photographer, on the colophon of Volume II (as pictured). A beautiful, rare copy.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
WHITMAN, Walt (Edward WESTON). LEAVES OF GRASS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942.
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: Two slim, tall quarto (9" x 12") volumes bound in imitation vellum reproducing in dark grass-green ink a photograph by Edward Weston who has illustrated the volume with 49 photographs specially commissioned for this book and made into exquisitely clear half-tones printed on coated paper. Each spine has a leather label with the title stamped in gilt. With an introduction by Mark Van Doren. Copy #611 of 1500 SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. A masterpiece of the modern photographically illustrated book. Minor wear and small scrapes to the spine. Still Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with repaired splits
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.