Leaves of Grass

Walt WHITMAN

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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

"HIS RHYTHMIC SONG RINGS FOREVER IN THE AMERICAN AIR": LEAVES OF GRASS, 1876 AUTHOR'S EDITION SIGNED BY WHITMAN

WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Author's Edition, With Portraits from Life. Camden, New Jersey: [no publisher], 1876. Octavo, original three-quarter cream calf expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, marbled boards, yellow-coated endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

"Author's Edition," one of 600 copies signed in ink on the title page by Walt Whitman, with two portraits of America's "good gray poet."

"Practically everything that can be said about the significance of [Leaves of Grass] has been said by its author… He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the intoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of his 'barbaric yawp,' are so powerful that the echo of his… rhythmic song rings forever in the American air" (Grolier American 100 67). Complete with two portraits (Samuel Hollyer's stipple-engraving of Whitman, inserted after page 28; and W.J. Linton's wood-engraving from G.C. Potter's photograph of Whitman, inserted after page 284). With advertisement inserted following first rear flyleaf, as called for. Myerson A2.5.c2. BAL 21412. Wells & Goldsmith, 20-21.

Interior fine, light wear and soiling mainly to calf extremities. A near-fine copy.

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