Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [1991]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 596pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Exceptional first edition of this thick life by the noted scholar best known as a Walt Whitman authority (1918-2001). Fittingly, top of front flyleaf bears 1992..... More
New York: New York University Press, [1973]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with burgundy spine lettering. xiii, 160pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine. Pristine second printing of this festschrift honoring the renowned literary critic best known for his biographies of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James and J. Hector..... More
N.p. New York University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy and grey cloth, dust jacket. viii, 387pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor age toning to jacket spine. Tight, attractive first edition of the second volume (only) from this six-volume set. Front flyleaf bears an archival bookplate signed boldly in..... More