"Capturing the towering emotion and the claustrophobic 24-hour drama of New York City, New York is the ultimate tribute to the world’s ultimate metropolis. This thorough appraisal of the greatest modern city covers every aspect of the New York story from history, architecture, design, art, and fashion to music, film, dance, and sports. Eighteen chapters of new and archival writing from leading New York journalists and writers including R ..."
"Capturing the towering emotion and the claustrophobic 24-hour drama of New York City, New York is the ultimate tribute to the world’s ultimate metropolis. This thorough appraisal of the greatest modern city covers every aspect of the New York story from history, architecture, design, art, and fashion to music, film, dance, and sports. Oversized, presented in a specially made Lucite box, and including 2 limited-edition archival prints by ..."
"Capturing the towering emotion and the claustrophobic 24-hour drama of New York City, New York is the ultimate tribute to the world’s ultimate metropolis. This thorough appraisal of the greatest modern city covers every aspect of the New York story from history, architecture, design, art, and fashion to music, film, dance, and sports. Eighteen chapters of new and archival writing from leading New York journalists and writers including R ..."
"Capturing the towering emotion and the claustrophobic 24-hour drama of New York City, New York is the ultimate tribute to the world’s ultimate metropolis. This thorough appraisal of the greatest modern city covers every aspect of the New York story from history, architecture, design, art, and fashion to music, film, dance, and sports. Eighteen chapters of new and archival writing from leading New York journalists and writers including R ..."
Choice of Verse by WalterWhitman Hardcover, Published by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-08403-6, ISBN: 0-571-08403-6
" From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcoversfeaturing cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features uniq ..."
"Produced in a numbered limited edition of 350, this is a full-sized facsimile of Wharton Esherick’s prototype of Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Broad-Axe.” Each page is as produced by the artist, with hand lettering and illumination. Esherick illustrated the work with eighteen woodblock images that represent the artist’s vision and skill. Available for the first time to the public, this book is work of art, interpreting the power of Whitma ..."
AccessAble Bks.(Updated) Leaves of Grass Imprints : American and European criticisms of Leaves of Grass by WalterWhitman, Joel Myerson Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-976-8, ISBN: 1-57003-976-3
"This is a new edition of the pamphlet Whitman edited (and partially wrote) to advertise his poetry, first published in 1860 and reproduced from the first edition in the Joel Myerson Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries"
Leaves of Grass The Original 1855 Edition: Bold-faced Thoughts on the Power and Pleasure of Self-expression (Bold-Faced Wisdom) by WalterWhitman, Laura Ross, Gay Wilson Allen Flexibound, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Sterling Innovation ISBN-13: 978-1-4027-7066-1, ISBN: 1-4027-7066-9
" 0in 0in 0pt"of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,The Modern Man I sing.” -- from Leaves of Grass The newest in our series of bold-faced thoughts on classic works! This pocket-size, volume offers an innovative take on a beloved American masterpiece: the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass, which consisted of an introduction by Whitman and merely t ..."
"Walt Whitman was born in 1819, and from an early age evinced an intense curiosity and wonder in the miracle of Existence, and its ultimate meaning. In his collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, Whitman brings a new voice to America Literature - a voice that flouted many poetic conventions and covered a wide range of subjects, from freedom to slavery, war to peace, and (most controversial of all for its time) love and sexuality. Accordi ..."
Memoranda During the War Civil War Journals, 1863-1865 (Dover Books on Americana) by WalterWhitman, Bob Blaisdell Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2010 by Dover Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-486-47641-4, ISBN: 0-486-47641-3
"These reflections by one of America's greatest poets on the nation's most momentous struggle began when Walt Whitman discovered his brother's name in a newspaper list of Union Army casualties. The poet hurried from his Brooklyn home to a Virginia battlefront, where he found his brother, wounded but recovering. Profoundly moved by his experiences in the army hospital, Whitman settled in Washington, D.C., for the rest of the war. There he ..."
Leaves of Grass(Unabridged) by WalterWhitman, Mel Foster Cd, Published 2010 by Tantor Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4001-6805-7, ISBN: 1-4001-6805-8
"Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass initially consisted of a preface, twelve untitled p ..."
Leaves of Grass(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by WalterWhitman, Jerome Loving Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953900-0, ISBN: 0-19-953900-6
"Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as `disgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the `most extraordinary piece of ..."
"Not many people know that Walt Whitman - arguably the pre-eminent American poet of the nineteenth century - began his literary career as a novelist. Out of print since 1967, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times, was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of intense temperance movement activity, it became Whitman's most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies. The novel ..."
"Not many people know that Walt Whitman arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century began his literary career as a novelist. "Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times" was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity, it became Whitman s most popular work during his lifetime, selling some twenty thousand copies.The novel tells the rags-to-riches story of F ..."
Leaves of Grass(1st Edition) The Original 1855 Edition (Dover Thrift Editions) by WalterWhitman, Dover Thrift Editions Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Dover Publications Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-486-45676-8, ISBN: 0-486-45676-5
"In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of the time, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human b ..."
Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics) by WalterWhitman Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 2006 by Simon & Schuster Special Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2371-0, ISBN: 1-4165-2371-5
"ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPA collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical cont ..."
"In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a "new world," a world dense with horror and revelation. Memoranda During the War is Whitman's testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. The book consists of journal entries extending from Whitman's arrival on the ..."
" A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry w ..."