Research Catalog

Title

Leaves of grass / a gathering from Walt Whitman ; illustrated by John Steuart Curry.

Author

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Publication

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1946]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946
• Peter Pauper Press, publisher.
• The Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Walt Whitman.

Description

8 unnumbered pages, 9-173 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Leaves of grass. Selections

Alternative Title

Leaves of grass.

Subject

American poetry > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Private press books – New York (State) – Mount Vernon – 20th century.

Note

• "The text of Whitman's poems, and even their titles, varied considerably from edition to edition. The present text generally follows the 'accepted' readings as published by David McKay in 1900, but in a few cases the text of the 1891-2 edition is followed. The present edition is a selection, not the complete Leaves of Grass."--Page [5].
• "The text of this edition is set in the Janson types, and is printed on Victorian paper especially made for the Press."--Colophon.
• Date of publication taken from Donnelly and Dobkin, #268.
• "A font of type" poem, by Walt Whitman, in colophon.
• Issued in slipcase.
• Gift of Susan Jaffe Tane, 2021.

Indexed In (note)

• Bennett, Paul A., ed., Recalling Peter (NY : Typophiles, 1964)
• Donnelly, S. and Dobkin, J.B. The Peter Pauper Press of Peter and Edna Beilenson, 1928-1979

Provenance (note)

• Inscribed in ink, on upper end leaf, "5/11/52 To mother love, John"; booksellers ticket laid on upper pastedown, "Bull's Head Book Shop Chapel Hill, N.C."

Binding (note)

• Bound in quarter green cloth with decorative paper boards and gilt stamped spine; issued in slipcase with pictorial label laid on.

Call Number

Rare Books 22-30

OCLC

7021388

Author

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Title

Leaves of grass / a gathering from Walt Whitman ; illustrated by John Steuart Curry.

Publisher

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1946]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Bennett, Paul A., ed., Recalling Peter (NY : Typophiles, 1964), p. 57

Donnelly, S. and Dobkin, J.B. The Peter Pauper Press of Peter and Edna Beilenson, 1928-1979, 268.

Provenance

Inscribed in ink, on upper end leaf, "5/11/52 To mother love, John"; booksellers ticket laid on upper pastedown, "Bull's Head Book Shop Chapel Hill, N.C." NN

Binding

Bound in quarter green cloth with decorative paper boards and gilt stamped spine; issued in slipcase with pictorial label laid on. NN

Added Author

Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

The Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Walt Whitman.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 22-30