Life and Work of Walt Whitman: A Soviet View Inscribed to Alvah Bessie, Hollywood Ten

by Walt Whitman, Maurice Mendelson, Andrew Bromfield, G. Dauman

$100 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm ; white cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black, navy blue, and gilt on spine and front cover; 6 ,7-347, 5 pp; black and white photograph halftone frontispiece. Inscribed by Mendelson on half title, For Alvah Bessie / as a most talented American writer and a faithful friend of

• Printing: first

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