[Rarebooks] FS: Deathbed Edition of LEAVES OF GRASS with a Fine Original Drawing by Conrad Roland

[Charles Agvent]

WHITMAN, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. Including Sands At Seventy ... 1st 
Annex, Good Bye My Fancy ... 2nd Annex, A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd 
Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-92. Ninth 
Edition. Original green cloth, uncut, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a 
frontispiece portrait of Whitman, another portrait of Whitman inserted 
at page 29, and four folding facsimiles of Whitman's writing. BAL 21441: 
Printing 1, Binding C. "Deathbed" Edition, Whitman's final arrangement 
of his work. This copy SIGNED on the title page by Pennsylvania 
ornithological artist Conrad Roland with his pencil notes in "A Backward 
Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as well as a full-page of pencil notes at 
the rear about Whitman. In addition tipped in before the title page is a 
fine ORIGINAL ink and sepia watercolor drawing of Whitman by Roland. 
Paper split at front gutter with cover a little loose. Two small 
portrait reproductions tipped in with one offsetting to the text 
opposite. Trivial wear to the binding. Near Fine. (#019337)        $2,500.00

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