131 / 146
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WHARTON, EDITH.
Ethan
Frome.
4 pages of advertisements at end.
8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped red cloth, top
edges gilt, trace of rubbing to spine tips;
internally clean.
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST
ISSUE
with unbroken final line of type on
page 135.
NewYork: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911
[500/750]
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[WHITE, E.B.] [Hanrahan, John]
(contrib.).
Less Than Nothing - or The
Life and Times of Sterling Finny.
Photographic illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s
1
/
4
cloth over patterned boards, printed
paper label to front cover, light wear to
extremities; hinges tender with short split
at rear, but overall sound for this cheaply
made binding.
[NewYork:The NewYorker, 1927]
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR
’
S FIRST
BOOK
.
Issued anonymously, this collects a
series of advertisements by White with his
accompanying photographs that ran in The
New Yorker. An in-house production of an
unknown limitation, very likely a small print
run reserved for agents and preferred customers.
“These Sterling Finney advertisements were
written by me.They ran in the magazine in the
early years when it was trying to promote its
circulation. I posed the dummies—figures I
found in Wanamaker’s department store”
(White, quoted in Hall). Rare, with no copies
appearing at auction in over three decades.Hall A1.
298
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WHITMAN, WALT.
Leaves of
Grass.
Engraved frontispiece portrait by
S.A. Schoff, calligraphic title. 8vo, pub-
lisher’s deep-purplish cloth, beveled edges,
spine gilt, blind-stamped covers, spine tips
rubbed slightly; front hinge partly split but
firm, original yellow endpapers.
Boston:Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61
[i.e. 1860]
[300/400]
THIRD EDITION
,
SECOND
(
OR THIRD
)
PRINTING
,
BAL binding state C. The pre-
sumed third printing (though previously
thought to be the second), and first unautho-
rized printing, of the third edition, without the
printers’ imprints on the copyright-page. The
frontispiece in the third state, signed “S.A.
Schoff” on a plain white background. Myerson,
Walt Whitman, a Descriptive Bibliography,
A2.3.c (calling it the third printing); BAL
21397 (calling it the second printing).
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