Leaves Of Grass: Including: Sands at Seventy, First Annex, Good-by My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads and Portrait From Life

New York: Aventine Press, (1931).

Price: $85.00

Hardcover. Reprint. Very good with title on spine faded and water mark to top of the text block that does NOT affect the interior pages in very good dust jacket with tape reinforcement at the crown, touch of foxing to inside of jacket along the spine and some wear at the extremities. Seldom found in the original jacket.

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Item #317487 Leaves Of Grass: Including: Sands at Seventy, First Annex, Good-by My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads and Portrait From Life. Walt WHITMAN.

Walt Whitman
birth name: Walter Whitman
born: 5/31/1819
died: 3/26/1892
nationality: USA

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American journalist, essayist, and poet whose style of writing in such works as Leaves of Grass (first edition, 1855) revolutionized American literature. Such poems as "I Sing the Body Electric" and "Song of Myself" asserted the beauty of the human body, physical health, and sexuality. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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Whitman may well be the great American poet. Because he published so much of his own work, his bibliography can be complicated and detailed. Leaves of Grass (first edition, 1855 - but which he continued to expand upon for most of the rest of his life) exists in two states, and at least three bindings, but suffice it to say that any copy dated in 1855 is desirable, and will be commensurately expensive.more