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Song of the broad-axe / by Walt Whitman ; with illustrations cut on wood by Wharton H. Esherick.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dreiser Library PS3222 .S64 1924
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--19th century.
- American poetry.
- Wood-engraving, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (bookplate) (inscription) (Dreiser copy)
- Esherick, Wharton (autograph) (Dreiser copy)
- Lewis, John F. (John Frederick), Jr., 1899-1968 (donor) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The Centaur Press, MCMXXIV [1924]
- Notes:
- "Limited to four hundred copies, of which three hundred and seventy-five are for sale"--Colophon.
- Without pagination.
- Local Notes:
- Dreiser copy is no. 82.
- Dreiser copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Dreiser copy is inscribed to Theodore Dreiser by Wharton Esherick 1928.
- Dreiser copy has the bookplate of Theodore Dreiser.
- Whitman Collection copy is number 155 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 400 copies. See colophon.
- Whitman Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 1944 by John F. Lewis, Jr.
- Whitman Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, H 72, page 963
- Other Format:
- Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Song of the broad-axe.
- OCLC:
- 3214020
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