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Lot 120

Sale 5213 - Rare Books and Manuscripts
Apr 4, 2013 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500 - 800
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$700
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* 4 vols.


* 4 vols.
Whitman, Walt: Poems. L: John Camden Hotten, 1868. 1st English ed. 8vo, orig. blue cloth, blind stamped covers, gilt-lettered spine, rough trimmed; light wear. Port., 8pp pub. cat at front, 8pp & 16pp pub. cat. at rear. Light to moderate foxing to port., title-page, adverts & front matter, other scattered light foxing. Edited by William Michael Rossetti. Sound copy in custom cloth fall down box. BAL 21401 - bdg state B. * Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61. 3rd [unorthorized] ed., 3rd ptg. 12mo, orig. purple cloth, bevelled bds, blind covers, gilt & blind spine; light edge wear. Frontis. Front hinge cracked. Complete. Internally crisp & clean. BAL 21397 - port. & bdg states C. * Leaves of Grass. Phila: Rees Welsh, 1882. 12mo, orig. brown cloth, gilt; light wear. Port. Tight bright copy. With specimen days slip tipped in. BAL 21419. * Selected Poems. N.Y: Charles S. Webster, 1892. 12mo, orig. gilt-lettered green cloth; light to moderate edge wear. Frontis port. Dampstaining to heads of text leaves, presentation copy from the pub. to Horace Howard Furness. BAL 21638, 1st issue.

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