[Rarebooks] FS: Attractive Edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, 1929

[Charles Agvent]

WHITMAN, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1929. 
Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in decorated green cloth. Illustrated 
with a portrait of Whitman reproduced from the original wet-plate 
negative taken in 1876 by Frank Pearsall of Brooklyn as well as a 
facsimile of a page in the copy of the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS 
owned and annotated by Whitman. The second book published by The Limited 
Editions Club. Introduction by Carolyn Wells, printed by William Edwin 
Rudge, and designed by Frederic Warde. Copy #1298 of 1500 SIGNED by the 
designer on the colophon page. Fine in a scarce and close to Fine plain 
gray paper dustwrapper and a Near Fine slipcase with bumps and resulting 
tears at the top and bottom of the backstrip. (#020266) $350

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