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
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.
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