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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn: [Fowler and Wells], 1856.
12o (166 x 95 mm). 1-page publisher's advertisement at end. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with Emerson's famous greeting in gilt at foot of spine. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY of the Second Edition, with 20 additional poems not published in the 1855 edition. Of this edition, 1,000 copies were printed. BAL 21396; Myerson A2.2; Wells & Goldsmith, pp.5-6: "the book is quite a rarity and is seldom found in good condition."
12o (166 x 95 mm). 1-page publisher's advertisement at end. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with Emerson's famous greeting in gilt at foot of spine. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY of the Second Edition, with 20 additional poems not published in the 1855 edition. Of this edition, 1,000 copies were printed. BAL 21396; Myerson A2.2; Wells & Goldsmith, pp.5-6: "the book is quite a rarity and is seldom found in good condition."