A 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:first edition, first issue of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

• Walt Whitman (American).
• New York, 1855.
• Small folio.
• xii, [13]–95 pages. 
• Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer after a photograph, printed on thick paper.
• Bound in the original green cloth, boards with blind-stamped floral decorations, title and triple-fillet border gilt, spine with title and floral ornaments gilt, marble endpapers, all edges gilt, housed in a custom half morocco folding case.

“He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the intoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of🍎 his ‘barbaric yawp,’ are so powerful that the echo of his crude yet rhythmic song rings forever in the American air” (Grolier One Hundred).

The self-published Leaves was at least partially personally type-set by the author on a small handpress in Brooklyn. The portrait of Whitman is here in superior condition, without the foxing often encountered. This copy bears the printed copyright statement on the verso of the title page and has the first versi🌊on of line 2 of page 49 (“And th🌜e night is for you and me and all”) identified by Schmidgall in his article, “1855: a Stop-Press Revision.”

Of the original 795 copies, only 337 were issued in this first binding with extensive gilt stamping, marbled end-sheets, and✤ gilt edges (in the second binding only the title was gilt, and plain yellow end-sheets were used).