Woodcut Whitman
WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI (illustrator).
A Whitman Portrait.
[New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]
Small squarish 8vo, unpaginated; with 17 woodcut illustrations in various colours and printed on various papers; publisher’s illustrated yellow boards, spine slightly sunned; bookplate of D. G. Bridson, gift inscription presenting him with the book in 1960.
£250
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First edition, comprising extracts from Leaves of Grass, facsimile letters and a selection of woodcut ‘portraits’ by Frasconi. Numbered 149 of 525 copies signed by Frasconi, printed on Japanese Goyu paper.
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