Autographed Letter Signed ALS Mentioning Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

$8,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

WHITMAN AS A BOOKSELLER, TRYING TO SELL LEAVES OF GRASS. In this letter, Whitman has written to New York publishers Dick & Fitzgerald mentioning Leaves of Grass. He offers the book to them at a 33% discount and signs the letter with his full signature Walt Whitman . Framed alongside the letter is the famous photo of Whitman touching the prop butterfly from the first edition of Whitman's Specimen Days & Collect . The

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