Leaves of Grass; Including: Sands at Seventy ... 1st Annex, Good-bye my Fancy ... 2d Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher [1892], 1892. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], 3-438 pp. Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. A portrait plate of Whitman inserted after page 28 (image done by Samuel Hollyer). BAL 21441. Myerson A2.7.l2. The latest date noted on this copy's copyright page is 1891, the spine states "Complete 1892" (which corresponds with BAL's C binding of this edition). The binding corresponds with the "D" binding in Myerson, and the contents are similar to Myerson's 1892 printing description except a different address for McKay appears on the title page and no date appears on our copy's title page. This is a later printing of the "Deathbed edition". The author's final arrangement of his magnum opus, done shortly before his death in March of 1892. A pleasing example of this iconic American poem. Near Fine. Item #000012360
Minor rubbing to the extremities including a small split to the spine's crown, a later bookplate on the front pastedown.
Price: $850.00