WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. Illustrated with two portrait plates of Whitman. 8vo, original 1/4 cream calf over marbled boards, gilt leather spine label, repairs to spine, hinges reinforced, rubbing to extremities; front free endpaper replaced, armorial bookplate and small bookseller's label on front pastedown; advert leaf bound in at rear; housed in 1/4 morocco slipcase, worn. From the Estate of Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer-winning biographer. Mr. Silverman was a specialist in Colonial American literature and the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University. Camden, 1876