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WEST, NATHANAEL.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell.
8vo, stiff printed
wrappers, short splits along lower spine, line of spotting on front cover; glassine remnants
within covers.
Paris/New York: Contact Editions, (1931)
[800/1,200]
FIRST
,
LIMITED EDITION
.
NUMBER
351
OF
500
COPIES
.
The first book by one of America’s
finest satirical writers of the 20th century.
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[WHITMAN, WALT].
The National Era (contributions to).
3 issues, compris-
ing: Vol. IV.-Nos. 44, 46 and 47, dated, respectively, Thursday, October 31; Thursday,
November 14; and Thursday, November 21, 1850. Large folio, each 4 pages, tattered on
inner fold edges, occasional spotting, old signature across upper margin of first page of each
with some bleed through. Whitman’s contributions attributed to “Paumanok” in each issue.
New York, 1850
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Whitman contributed three letters to the
National Era in the fall of 1850 under the
heading of ‘Letters From New York’
and...under the sign of ‘Paumanok.’ This
letter [Oct. 31] and the other two soon
turned to the subject of art...He also spoke
of attending a recent exhibit at the
American Art Union in Manhattan, where
he found that most of the paintings lacked
proper emotion (‘all spack [sic] and span,
and shining, in their
handsome
frames’)...Whitman’s second letter was
another rehearsal of the poet of ‘the open
road.’ On November 14 he took the reader
by the arm and escorted him up Broadway,
beginning at the Battery.” The final letter
offers a meditation on music as art:
“Music, in the legitimate sense of that
term, exists independently of rhyme”
(Loving, pp. 168-171).
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WEST, NATHANAEL.
The
Day of the Locust.
8vo, publisher’s red
cloth, spine with printed paper label,
slightly cocked, spine tips faded; dust
jacket, scattered soiling and chips along
edges not touching lettering, folds split
with tape repairs on recto and verso,
unclipped.
FIRST EDITION
.
The
Hollywood
novel. New York, (1939)
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