WHITMAN WALT Leaves of Grass

Sale 2295 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 5,760

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. Illustrated with two portraits of Whitman. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered; scattered soiling, hinges and corners rubbed, ad leaf bound in rear; unobtrusive ownership signature on second blank; housed in custom clamshell box. Camden, New Jersey, 1876

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signed by whitman on title-page; the 6th edition of the work, and one of about 600 unnumbered copies. Author's Edition. "America's second Declaration of Independence"--Printing and the Mind of Man; BAL 21412.