ID 627630
Lot 141 | Leaves of Grass
Valeur estimée
$ 7 000 – 9 000
Second edition, containing the first appearance of twenty poems not published in the 1855 edition. It also includes an appendix (“Leaves-Droppings”) with reviews and the full text of Emerson’s famous 21 July 1855 letter to Whitman, along with Whitman’s ten-page response. The backstrip quotes Emerson's letter: "I greet you at the beginning of your career." One of 1,000 copies printed. BAL 21396; Myerson A2.2.
12mo. Frontispiece; 1 p. ad at rear (a little foxing internally, deleted inscription to front endpapers). Publisher's green cloth gilt (recased with later endpapers, extremities lightly rubbed); custom box.
| Artiste: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Crayon |
| Artiste: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Crayon |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Royaume-Uni | |
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| Téléphone | +44 (0)20 7839 9060 | |
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