Whitman, Walt

LEAVES OF GRASS ["Author's Edition" signed]

Camden, NJ, 1876. Hardcover. Good. Item #21-7154

2 portraits. 8 x 5", half calf; marbled boards, 384pp, covers heavily worn, front outer hinge cracked, spine detached (though most of the parts are included), extremities bumped and worn, front blank and title page loose (though present), bookplate of former owner (George A. Crawley, British artist and designer) inside front cover over remnants of removed bookplate, Crawley's ink name at top of front fly, another former owner's bookplate inside rear cover, pp toned and used; a rather well-used and abused copy of the AUTHOR'S EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WALT WHITMAN, ON TITLE PAGE.

Price: $6,000.00