Wrenching Times. Poems from Drum-Taps

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From an edition limited to just 450 this is one of the 23 SPECIALs designed by David Esslemont, and bound by Alan Wood, lacks the additional loose engravings. 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 discoloring to edge. In a custom made cloth covered drop-back box, half title, frontis, [6], 7-70 pp, [1], [1] limitation, 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 Gregynog binding. (Dowd Special Bindings K, p63) Gaylord Schanilec (born 15 April 1955) is a notable American wood engraver & printer. He is the proprietor of the press Midnight Paper Sales, located in Stockholm, Wisconsin. Schanilec has used traditional wood engraving processes to create illustrations for hundreds of works. See Wiki. Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.[1] His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. See Wiki.