GRAPH BOOKS: PRINTED MATTER FROM RADICAL ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.
Walt Whitman (Trans. Suat Tașer), 1951
Avant-garde typography and experimental book design in the first Turkish translation of Walt Whitman.
Çayir Yapraklari (Leaves of Grass)
Whitman, Walt. Trans. Suat Tașer. Çayir Yapraklari [Leaves of Grass]. Ankara: Buket Basimevi, 1961. Oblong 12mo unfolds to 6 x 23 cm; 19 pp. excerpted translations from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, incl. 5 pp. intro. (in translation) by prominent American editor and socialist Max Eastman; color illus. wrpps. sl. soiled with small stain rear cover, pages separated from internal staple (wrappers still glued). The translator was an important Turkish poet and political activist.
Scarce, OCLC finds only 3 copies in North America.
$325