'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.' One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets. Experimental in form, lyrical in expression, and rich in experiential content, Specimen Days still awaits a much wider readership than it ...
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'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.' One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets. Experimental in form, lyrical in expression, and rich in experiential content, Specimen Days still awaits a much wider readership than it has hitherto commanded. Whitman gives us his life as lived in relation to the shifting urban and rural ecologies of a young nation -a nation that had freshly emerged from catastrophic civil war and that was assuming the vanguard of artistic, technological, economic, political, and philosophical modernity. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Add this copy of Specimen Days (Oxford World's Classics) to cart. $35.11, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2023 by Oxford University Press.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $49.44, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $78.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $78.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $45.43, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Barnes and Noble.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $57.96, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $44.50, very good condition, Sold by Eat My Words rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by David R. Bodine.
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0879230339. Introduction by Alfred Kazin. Illustrated with 133 Civil War photographs and selected portraits from Whitman's life. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and clean. Decorated cloth cover has a little wear to spine tips, but otherwise okay. Dustjacket, now in plastic, is price-clipped and his minor wear to edges. Slipcase is a little faded and scraped, but still solidly constructed.; 197 pages.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by David R. Godine.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Introduction by Alfred Kazin. Quarto. 197pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Topedge lightly soiled, shallow scratch along foredge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few dampstains on the slightly tanned spine and small chips, creases and tears along the edges. One of 2500 hardcover copies (of 5000).
Add this copy of Specimen Days. 1971. Cloth With Dustjacket to cart. $83.77, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by David R. Bodine.
Add this copy of Specimen Days to cart. $112.00, like new condition, Sold by Charles Bartman, ABAA, ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Louisville, KY, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by David R. Godine.
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As New in As New jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. pp. 197. One of 1, 250 copies in Limited Edition; with near fine slipcase; bound in full buckram; printed on special English mold made watermarked rag paper; illustrated with 68 portraits of Whitman from age 27 to 72 and 57 Civil War photographs selected from photographs made by Maththew Brady and his associates many published for the first time; with an as new Prospectus; 4to; with 197 pages.
