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WHITMAN, WALT.
Leaves of Grass.
Frontispiece portrait of Whitman by
Samuel Hollyer printed on heavy China paper (first state). Small folio (284x197 mm;
11
3
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8
x7
3
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4
inches), rebound in 19th-century
3
/
4
brown morocco gilt, extremities rubbed;
marbled endpapers, hinges cracked, frontispiece foxed, title-page less so, but with toning
and mild offsetting from tissue guard, also with a small faint semi-circular dampstain affect-
ing outer right margin of title and following three leaves, a few upper corners gently bent
or creased, second state of page iv.
Brooklyn: [Printed for the Author], 1855
[25,000/35,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
second state, with copyright statement. “America’s Second Declaration of
Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual”—Printing and the Mind
of Man 340. Myerson A2.1.a1; BAL 21395; Grolier American 67.
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