Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855... 1888 Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

$22,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition · Signed

SIGNED FIRST EDTION OF THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF WHITMAN’S WORK; A REMARKABLE COPY FROM WHITMAN’S PERSONAL LIBRARY. On this Edition: “Whitman never lost his passion for joining disparate parts into a whole: it was the basis of his politics, his philosophy, and his bookmaking. He wrote to one acquaintance in 1886 that ‘I think of... bringing out a complete budget of all my writing in one

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