Vintage 1951 Castle Books / Greystone Press Poetry 3-Vol Set Whitman Keats For Sale

Title: Vintage 1951 Poetry & Verse Hardcover Set (3 Volumes) - Castle Books / The Greystone Press

Item Specifics:

• Format: Hardcover (Pocket-Sized, Quarter-Bound)

• Publication Year: 1951

• Publisher: Castle Books / The Greystone Press (Printed by George McKibbin & Son)

• Designer: George Hornby (The Creative Bookmaking Guild)

• Language: English

• Topic: Poetry, Classic Literature

Description:

Up for sale is a beautiful, matching trio of vintage mid-century classic literature volumes published in 1951. Designed under the art direction of renowned typographer George Hornby, these books feature striking, upscale styling with colorful faux-leather spines, gold gilt typography, and matching combed marbled paper boards.

Because these 1951 editions shared a combined commercial print run, two volumes display the co-branded Castle Books / Greystone Press logos, while one features the standalone Greystone Press imprint. They make an excellent decorative bookshelf display or addition to a vintage library!

Included Volumes:

• \"Song of Myself\" by Walt Whitman (Red Spine) – From Leaves of Grass, beautifully illustrated by Magda Barcinsky Cregg.

• \"A Child\'s Garden of Verses\" by Robert Louis Stevenson (Black Spine).

• \"Selected Poems of Keats and Shelley\" by John Keats & Percy Bysshe Shelley (Blue Spine).

Condition Report:

Please review the photos carefully to evaluate the exact condition of this vintage set.

• Walt Whitman & R.L. Stevenson Volumes: Both are in Good to Very Good vintage condition. Covers show light, expected shelf wear along the edges. The interior pages are very clean and bright with minor, uniform age-toning. The inner hinges are solid and bindings remain tight.

• Keats & Shelley Volume: The interior text block is clean and complete, but the book has a fully split inner hinge where the text block has separated from the front cove

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