Leaves of Grass Including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye My Fancy... 2nd Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life

  • Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894
By Walt Whitman
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894. Very Good. Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1894. Reprint. Octavo (22cm); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 438pp. Moderate shelf wear to cloth margins with very brief exposure at corners, front hinge cracked, textblock uniformly brittle and toned; a Very Good example.

Later printing using the plates of the Rees Welsh & Co. 1882 edition. This copy with the ownership signature of Iowa State senator Eugene Schaffter (1864-1921) on front pastedown and title page.

See BAL 21630 for the 1884 McKay edition; see also Myerson A.2.7.0 for an earlier (1881-2) McKay printing.

Details

Title

Leaves of Grass Including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye My Fancy... 2nd Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life

Author

Walt Whitman

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

David McKay: Philadelphia

Date

1894


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