Books published by publisher John Day Company/International Collectors Library

International Collectors Library hard cover, without dust jacket, as issued. Printed October 1983 (code Y38). 279 pages. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") Omnibus of two novels, From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, originally published separately. From the Earth to the Moon was published originally as De la Terre à la Lune (#4 in the series, Voyages Extraordinaires); its sequel Around the Moon was published originally as Autour de la lune (#7 in the series, Voyages Extraordinaires). They are followed by a third novel in the series, Sans dessus dessous (published as The Purchase of the North Pole, and as Topsy-Turvy, and also as The Earth Turned Upside Down.) Although the translations are uncredited, these are the translations from the French of Lewis Page Mercier and Eleanor Elizabeth King.

This book has been called the most audacious, most brilliant, most important work of poetry ever to come out of America. It has been with us for more than a century, yet its singing phrases remain as modern as tomorrow. The poem is Leaves of Grass-Walt Whitman's masterpiece, and America's song of itself. Leaves of Grass first saw print in 1855, when its author was 36 years old. It was a slim volume, and like most books by new poets, it went all but unnoticed by the reading public. Yet within a few years, two things began to happen; the poem's reputation started to grow-and so did its physical size, as Whitman added new long passages with each succeeding edition. It its pages, Whitman sang in a strong lyrical voice of himself, his nation, and all the physical universe. At the end of the Civil War,he composed an elegy to the slain President Lincoln-poem that will live till time ends. Here is a magnificent work by a major poet-a volume you will treasure for a lifetime.