[Rarebooks] FS: 1929 LEAVES OF GRASS Designed by Frederic Warde in Uncommon Original Dustwrapper

[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 #1324 of 1500 SIGNED by the 
designer on the colophon page. Fine in a scarce and Near Fine plain gray 
paper dustwrapper with a few small tears and a Very Good slipcase with 
wear along one top edge. (#021309)        $400

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