WHITMAN WALT Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy A Backwa

Sale 2140 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 6,720

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SIGNED BIRTHDAY EDITION WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads. Frontispiece portrait of Whitman and five other portrait plates. 12mo, original wallet-style flexible roan with wrap-around flap, 3-mm chip to head of spine and only a slight bit of rubbing to flap fold and other edges; custom brown cloth clamshell box; owner's bookplate on pastedown, contemporary owner's signature on front endpaper verso, frontispiece reinforced with thin strip of linen along gutter verso. Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros., 1889

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one of 300 copies of the birthday edition signed by whitman on the title-page. This edition, issued at $5, was published to celebrate his 70th birthday on May 31, 1889. The title states "To-day, finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special, complete, final utterance, in one handy volume, of L. of G., with their Annex, and Backward Glance--and for stamping and sprinkling all with portraits and facial photos, such as they actually were, taken from life, at different stages. Doubtless, anyhow, the volume is more A PERSON than a book . . ." Meyerson As.7.n.