Author: WHITMAN, WALT Title: Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition
Description: New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1992. Hardcover. Book club edition. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was a work in progress; he continuously added new poems to it throughout his life right up to his death, thus the "Deathbed Edition" name. Includes his homage to Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and his prose reminiscence "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads." With index of poems. --- In red paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in light green jacket ornamented with line drawings by Michael Abrams. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound copy lacking noticeable damages. Unpriced jacket also in great shape, but slight sunning to spine; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, 427, [2] pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Poetry
Price: US$ 24.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88691