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Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: One of 550 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the photographer, this being copy no.418. Folio (44.5cm); emerald green cloth-covered boards, spine and fore-edges bound in black morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original black cloth slipcase; [48]pp, with six large photogravures by Aaron Siskind. Fine in a Fine slipcase, Fine press edition of this poem from Whitman's 1856 collection, Leaves of Grass, brought to life by American photographer Aaron Siskind (1903-1991). "The illustrations for Song of the Open Road transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism.The photographer's interpretation lies in the pictures he took not far from his home in Providence, R.I. of tar poured into the cracks of light-colored concrete roads, forming swirls and curves and parallel lines, cheerful or brooding markings on a gritty surface that is rendered almost microscopically and enlarged into a striking textural background for each of the six photographs" (from the prospectus).
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "Song of the Open Road" is a poem by Walt Whitman and from his 1856 collection 'Leaves of Grass". This book being #174 of an edition of 550 copies. The book was set in English Monotype Scotch at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr. Text printed by Heritage Printers on paper made at Carterie Enrico Magnani. Photographs by Aaron Siskind who also signed the book. Photogravure plates made by Paul Taylor and printed them with Clary Nelson at Renaissance Press on Richard de Bas paper. The book is NF with only some fading on the spine. The slipcase is VG with some fraying and sunning on the spine. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
WHITMAN, Walt. Song of the Open Road.. NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1990., 1990.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 1 vol., folio, 17-5/16 x 14-3/4", limited to 550 numbered and signed copies by the illustrator Aaron Siskind, this being copy #225, illustrated with 6 rich photogravures, all tissue guards present, bound in the original 1/2 black morocco and green cloth boards, includes the #560 LEC newsletter, without the slipcase, otherwise FINE.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. Song Of The Open Road. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1990.
Price: US$930.00 + shipping
Description: 52 pages. 27 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy 13 of 500 illustrated with six photogravures by Aaron Siskind, and signed by him on the colophon. The book was set in English Monotype Scotch at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr. The text was printed by Heritage Printers. Paul Taylor made the photogravure plates and printed them with Clary Nelson at Renaissance Press. Black half morocco and green cloth, leather gilt label on spine. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Walt Whitman; Aaron Siskind. Song of the Open Road. The Limited Editions Club, 1990.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: #485/550cc, signed by the photographer Aaron Siskind. Printed on archival paper. In slipcase.(c268).
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt.. Song of the Open Road.. Limited Editions Club., New York., 1990.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by the photographer on the colophon. Large book requires extra postage. LEC newsletter laid in. Fine in slipcase. Six photogravure plates by Aaron Siskind. Large folio. 24 pp. Hardcover, quarter black leather over green cloth boards, gilt spine title, in a black cloth slipcase.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Whitman, Walt. Song of the Open Road. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1990.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, 52 pp., Limited to 550 numbered copies, signed by the photographer, Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Dan Carr with six photogravure plates printed by Paul Taylor, with Clary Nelson at Renaissance Press, on mould- made French Richard de Bas paper. The letterpress text is set in English Monotype Scotch at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr and printed by Heritage Printers on mould-made paper from Carterie Enrico Magnani, Pescia, Italy.
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, unpaged, with 6 full-page hand-pulled photogravure plates, 10.5 x 10.5 in., bound in. Cloth with morocco spine and fore edge. Housed in publisher's cloth slipcase. A fine, as new copy, issued without a dust jacket. Aaron Siskind (1903 - 1991) was long associated as the photographer of the Abstract Expressionist group. This, his last body of work was made of the tar stains and patches in the road near his home in Providence, Rhode Island. A fitting accompaniment to Whitman's poem, SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD. "The book was set in English Monotype Scoth at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr. The text was printed by Heritage Printers on a paper made at Carterie Enrico Magnani. Paul Taylor made the photogravure plates and printed them with Clary Nelson at Renaissance Press on Richard de Bas paper. The book was designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Dan Carr." - The Colophon. One of 550 copies, SIGNED by Siskind.
Seller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd., ABAA, Akron, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 550 copies (this being number 294), numbered and signed on the colophon page by Siskind, with six bound hand-pulled photogravure plates (each 10-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches). Hardcover. Fine green linen cloth-covered boards, with spine and fore edge bound in black goatskin and title stamped in gold on spine; no dust jacket as issued; contained in a black linen-covered slipcase. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Text by Walt Whitman. Includes a laid-in four-page booklet on the edition. Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Dan Carr. Unpaginated (52 pp.), with six photogravure plates printed by Paul Taylor, with Clary Nelson at Renaissance Press, on mould-made French Richard de Bas paper. The letterpress text is set in English Monotype Scotch at Golgonooza Letter Foundry by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr and printed by Heritage Printers on mould-made paper from Carterie Enrico Magnani, Pescia, Italy. 17-3/8 x 14-7/8 inches. Fine (minor surface wear to the slipcase). Siskind's abstract photographs of road tar patterns -- his final body of work -- accompany Whitman's Song of the Open Road. Signed by Author.
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.