Leaves of Grass
New York: Aventine Press, 1931. Large octavo (9 3/4 inches tall), original brick cloth, gilt spine, brick top edge, uncut, original dust jacket. Gentle edge-wear, minor foxing to verso of original dust jacket. Near-fine. Item #29
"CAMERADO! THIS IS NO BOOK; WHO TOUCHES THIS, TOUCHES A MAN"
Fine Press edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, complete with the original photographic dust jacket. Laid-in is the four-page prospectus for The Library of American Poets edition.
Leaves of Grass "is America's second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual" (Printing and the Mind of Man). This edition, designed, printed and bound by the department of Limited editions of J.J. Little and Ives company, was the second volume of the Aventine Classics series.
Price: $200.00