Leaves of Grass, Including a Facsimile autobiography variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves.
1900 · Philadelphia
by Whitman, Walt.
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1900). Octavo, bound by Sickles in full black morocco, gilt panels with gilt-stamped leafy corner decorations and the gilt-stamped monogram of Charles Edward Ballard, hotelier and circus owner, spine decorated with gilt panels each with leaf corner devices, dentelles also attractively decorated with a leaf pattern, silk doublures & endsheets, top edge gilt, uncut, [xii], 516 pp. Frontis portrait with facsimile inscription underneath, fold-out facsimiles. Fine. (Inventory #: 71290bd)