[WHITMAN, WALT]. Leaves of Grass. With Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads... [Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co.], 1889. Photographic frontispiece and five other inserted portraits. 12mo, original limp black morocco, gilt-lettered, g.e., worn. "Birthday Edition" (the eighth separate edition of Leaves), issued in celebration of Whitman's 70th birthday on May 31, limited to 300 copies signed by Whitman (on the title-page). This copy signed by Horace L. Traubel (Whitman's friend and biographer) on the front free endpaper along with a later presentation inscription from a relative. Wells & Goldsmith, pp. 32-33; BAL 21435 (Binding C).