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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

$125,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

New York: 1855. 4to. xii, 95, 8 , pp. With frontispiece portrait. FIRST EDITION, First issue. Half morocco on marbled boards with original front cover bound inside at the back . Item #13707 First edition, first issue binding BAL’s and Myerson’s Binding A , first state of the frontispiece portrait on heavy paper , second state of the copyright page as usual, second state of p. iv. According to the

  • Printing: first
  • Binding: Leather

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