Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

$18,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Brooklyn: Fowler & Wells , 1856. Second edition, one of only 1,000 copies rumored to have been printed, per Myerson. iv, 5 - 384, 1 pp, tissue-guarded frontispiece, advertising page at rear. Bound in publisher's green cloth, blindstamping to boards, gilt stamping to front board and spine. All edges speckled red, yellow endpapers. Very Good, skillfully rebacked with original spine cloth laid over. Mottling and fading to

• Binding: Hardcover

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