Leather-bound Leaves of Grass

 

Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass

New York: Aventine Press, (1931). First edition thus. 580 pages. Index. Octavo.

Including Sands at Seventy, First Annex, Good-by My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. An attractive edition of Whitman's poems, a book first published in 1855, and continuously expanded virtually until the author's death in 1892.

Printed on laid paper and bound in full morocco gilt, with decorated edges and spine, and marbled endpapers.

This appears to be a deluxe publisher's binding signed "Maurin" and bound by the "Department of Limited Editions of J. J. Little and Ives Company." Fine, with just the slightest wear to the extremities.

$350