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Wrenching Times. Poems from Drum-Taps

WHITMAN Walt (gregynog-Special)

Publisher: Gwasg Gregynog
Publish Year: 1991
Publish Place: Newtown, Montgomeryshire
Illustrator: Gaylord Schanilec

Category: Custom Bindings
Book No: 003874
Price: £2250
Status: For Sale

Book Condition: Near Fine
Size: Folio - over 12 - 15 tall
Jacket Condition:
Binding: Full-Leather
Book Type: Private Press
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription:

From an edition limited to just 450 copies of which this is one of 30 Specially Bound by David Esslemont. Bound in stained calf and goatskin boards with leather onlays and inlays, gold and coloured tooling, suede doublures, leather joints and Japanese paper fly leaves. Top edge toned and burnished, and titled on the spine. Just the faintest discolouring to edge. In a cloth covered drop-back box. 8 full page coloured wood engravings by Schanilec. Giving you a wonderful image of the vast American landscape with the pale blue skies and abstract mountains. 71 pp + colophon. Superb Special binding.

Wrenching Times. Poems from Drum-Taps