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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman. One-page publisher's advertisement at end. 12mo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with Emerson's famous greeting in gilt at foot of spine, spine darkened with gilt dulled, boards quite clean and unrubbed; contents clean throughout; bookplates of Wm. W. Greenough and Barrett Wendell on front pastedown. Brooklyn: [Fowler & Wells], 1856
second edition, with an additional twenty poems not found in the first edition. From an edition of 1000 copies. The final section, "Leaves-Droppings," begins with the famous Emerson letter quoted on the book's spine. A square, tight copy. "The book is quite a rarity and is seldom found in good condition" (Wells & Goldsmith, pp. 5-6). BAL 21396; Myerson A2.2.
