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WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. 1855
WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. Small folio (284x197 mm; 11 3/8x7 3/4 inches), original green cloth, second issue binding, small faded spots to lower front cover, spine ends and tips rubbed with minor loss, few minor bumps to edges; recased, original endpapers, remnant of large removed bookplate on front pastedown, frontispiece portrait with erased portion beneath image, title-page slightly trimmed along bottom margin and with repaired clean tear, pages iii/iv and v/vi supplied in sympathetic facsimile, final text leaf ([12]4r) supplied from another copy. Brooklyn: [for the author by Andrew and James Rome], 1855
- Notes: 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.
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