Description
Third edition, fourth printing of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Octavo, iv, 5-456pp. Maroon cloth, beveled edges. Title in gilt on spine and stamped in blind on covers. Top edge dyed black. Front and rear flyleaves, light pink endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Whitman, Form 2, with tissue cover and signed in the plate “S A Schoff.” Lacking additional stereotype and printer’s imprints, removed for the third printing. Lacking publisher’s catalogue, as required. Solid text block, wear to edges, small losses of cloth to spine tips and corners. (Myerson A2.3.d-e.) (BAL 21397) A presentable copy.
