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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Leaves of Grass Including Sands ...

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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Leaves of Grass Including Sands at Seventy, Good By My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O?er Travel?d Roads. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. Large 8vo. Frontispiece portrait and 6 plates (including 1 facsimile manuscript leaf, 4 of these illustrations only appear in this Large Paper issue). Publisher?s green cloth, printed paper label on spine (spine toned, numeric label on spine, binding worn and soiled, hinges cracked, a few text leaves at the rear with marginal dampstaining, several pages unopened). REPRINT EDITION, THE RARE LARGE PAPER ISSUE, ONE OF 90 COPIES PRINTED ON HANDMADE PAPER (#45, of the American issue), AND SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER.