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WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn: [Fowler & Wells], 1856.
12o. Engraved frontispiece portrait, leaf of ads at end. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with Emerson's famous greeting in gilt at bottom of spine (worn at ends of spine, fore-corners, and at two small spots on front outer joint, inner hinges weak); cloth folding case. Provenance: L.S. Johnson (a Whitman friend?, signature on pastedown) on inside front cover; Jerry Colonna (bookplate).
Second Edition, with 20 additional poems not in the 1855 edition, one of 1000 copies 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. Engraved frontispiece portrait, leaf of ads at end. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with Emerson's famous greeting in gilt at bottom of spine (worn at ends of spine, fore-corners, and at two small spots on front outer joint, inner hinges weak); cloth folding case. Provenance: L.S. Johnson (a Whitman friend?, signature on pastedown) on inside front cover; Jerry Colonna (bookplate).
Second Edition, with 20 additional poems not in the 1855 edition, one of 1000 copies printed. BAL 21396; Myerson A2.2; Wells & Goldsmith, pp. 5-6: "the book is quite a rarity and is seldom found in good condition."