Author: WHITMAN, Walt
Title: Leaves of Grass Comprising All the Poems Written by Walt Whitman Following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2
Description: San Francisco, The Arion Press, 2014. Hardcover. Folio (10" x 13-3/4") with a green goatskin spine and wooden boards with an oak veneer stained yellow-tan housed in a green cloth slipcase; 156 pages. The one-hundredth publication of the Arion Press contains the text of the 1855 first edition with an introduction by Helen Vendler. Of a total of 290 copies this is #167 of 275 with handset type on dampened handmade paper. The frontispiece portrait of Whitman from the first edition, a steel engraving based on a daguerreotype from 1854, is reproduced at twice size in sepia ink. A green grass device appears on the title and colophon pages and is reproduced in gilt on the spine of the book. Laid in are the prospectus, a sample leaf from the book, and a letter from the publisher along with a subscription sheet. A sumptuous production. Fine in a Fine slipcase in original shipping box .

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