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Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. Frontispiece portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer printed on heavy China paper (first state). Small folio (284x197 mm; 11 3/8x7 3/4 inches), rebound in 19th-century 3/4 brown morocco gilt, extremities rubbed; marbled endpapers, hinges cracked, frontispiece foxed, title-page less so, but with toning and mild offsetting from tissue guard, also with a small faint semi-circular dampstain affecting outer right margin of title and following three leaves, a few upper corners gently bent or creased, chip to upper outer corner of page v/vi, second state of page iv. Brooklyn: [Printed for the Author], 1855
first edition, second state, with copyright statement. "America's Second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual"--Printing and the Mind of Man 340. Myerson A2.1.a1; BAL 21395; Grolier American 67.
