LEAVES OF GRASS

by Walt Whitman

$12,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2014. Limited Edition. An exquisitely produced edition of Leaves of Grass, issued as the one hundredth publication of The Arion Press. Letterpress printed in Goudy Californian on Langley paper from the Barcham Green Mill in England, with watermarks of the mill and of Arion Press. The text is that of the 1855 first edition, just a dozen poems, far fewer than the Death-bed Edition of 1891-92,

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