Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads

by Walt Whitman

$11,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

To-day, finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special, complete, final utterance, in one handy volume, of L. of G., with their Annex, and Backward Glance--and for stamping and sprinkling all with portraits and facial photos, such as they actually were, taken from life, different stages. Doubtless, anyhow, the volume is more A PERSON than a book. And for testimony to all, and good measure, I here with pen and ink append my name: Walt Whitman

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