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Auction archive: Lot number 20

Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, third edition, Boston, Thayer & Eldridge, 1860 & Poems, first edition, 1868 (2)

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$514 - US$772
Price realised:
£200
ca. US$257
Auction archive: Lot number 20

Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, third edition, Boston, Thayer & Eldridge, 1860 & Poems, first edition, 1868 (2)

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$514 - US$772
Price realised:
£200
ca. US$257
Beschreibung:

Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, third edition, Printing 3, engraved portrait frontispiece by S.A.Schoff in third state (light spotting), stain to pp.8-9, one or two other minor marks, original blind-stamped purple cloth (Binding C), bevelled edges, pale yellow endpapers, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, Boston, Thayer & Eldridge, 1860-61 [1860]; Poems...selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti first edition, half-title, engraved portrait (lightly spotted), 8pp. advertisements at beginning, 8pp. reviews of works by Swinburne and 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, bookplate of F.Reddaway, lacking front free endpaper, original blue cloth, covers with 4 rule frame in blind, dark green endpapers, light soiling to upper cover, spine a little worn at head, John Camden Hotten, 1868, [BAL 21397 & 21401], 8vo (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, third edition, Printing 3, engraved portrait frontispiece by S.A.Schoff in third state (light spotting), stain to pp.8-9, one or two other minor marks, original blind-stamped purple cloth (Binding C), bevelled edges, pale yellow endpapers, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, Boston, Thayer & Eldridge, 1860-61 [1860]; Poems...selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti first edition, half-title, engraved portrait (lightly spotted), 8pp. advertisements at beginning, 8pp. reviews of works by Swinburne and 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, bookplate of F.Reddaway, lacking front free endpaper, original blue cloth, covers with 4 rule frame in blind, dark green endpapers, light soiling to upper cover, spine a little worn at head, John Camden Hotten, 1868, [BAL 21397 & 21401], 8vo (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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