LEAVES OF GRASS

by Walt Whitman

$3,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co, 1882. Printer Roger Sherman's copy of the seventh definitive edition of Whitman's recently censored American epic — with Sherman's lengthy and highly critical note to a rear blank. Very good. Item #55701 In 1881, Boston-based publisher James R. Osgood issued what is now called the definitive edition of Whitman's poems Renner . It was the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS

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