Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

$8,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

Signed

Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1882. Reprint utilizing slightly altered plates from the 1881-82 Boston edition. Signed by Walt Whitman on the first blank sheet, inscribed J. William Thompson from the author. Thompson was London lawyer who corresponded with Whitman, occasionally ordering books directly from the author. Bound in publisher's mustard cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, cloth soiled, lightly mottled, worn at

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