Leaves of Grass

Lot 141
15.10.2021 00:00UTC +00:00
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$ 11 250
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 141 | Leaves of Grass
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$ 7 000 – 9 000
[WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892).] Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn: [Fowler & Wells] 1856.

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.
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