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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. David McKay, Philadelphia, PA, 1888.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo (8.5"x6"). 404pp. Gold yellow cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title and decoration to spine and Whitman's name giltstamped to upper cover (binding A), top-edge gilt, fore- and tail-edges deckled. Lightly rubbed spine extremes and corners. Lightly soiled cloth, more to spine and top-edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pdep. Frontis/etched portrait plate with tissue at p.29 (where begins "Song of Myself"). Light crack at p382 to gutter where the annex "Sands at Seventy" is bound in at rear (p383-404). First inclusion of "Old Age's Lambent Peaks". Covered in seller's mylar.

Seller: Downtown Books & News, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.

WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass with "Annex, Sands at Seventy". David McKay, Philadelphia, 1888.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: See BAL 21433 for a description of this edition. No copies on Worldcat of this edition. BAL located 3 copies plus the Library of Congress copy. Large Octavo, original mustard cloth, gilt lettered, top edge gilt, with other edges untrimmed. Very Good with very little wear.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass with "Annex, Sands at Seventy". David McKay, Philadelphia, 1888.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: See BAL 21433 for a description of this edition. No copies on Worldcat of this edition. BAL located 3 copies plus the Library of Congress copy. Large Octavo, original mustard cloth, gilt lettered, top edge gilt, with other edges untrimmed. Very Good with very little wear.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.

Whitman, Walt. November Boughs. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888.

Price: US$12000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first issue. Presentation copy, inscribed by Whitman on the front free endpaper to his close friend, William Ingram: "Wm Ingram / from the author / Walt Whitman / Oct: 2 '88--". Publisher's flexible dark red cloth boards, lettered in gilt. One of approximately 100 special copies printed for Whitman for presentation (binding A). Spine ends lightly worn, tear to lower with a minor repair, a few small spots, light offsetting to pastedowns and endpaper, else very good or better. BAL 21430. Having published Specimen Days 6 years prior, Walt Whitman published November Boughs in 1888. A collection of new poems plus articles he had previously published, it contains insightful self-critique of his own work and what he believed would be his literary legacy. Notably, Whitman cites his magnum opus Leaves of Grass, acknowledging the public's lack of understanding of it, their outrage at its subject matter, and its failure to become a best-seller. The articles also reflect his views on society, namely his support of the working class and Native Americans, and lessons learned from his harrowing yet rewarding encounters working as a nurse during the American Civil War. Published when he himself was turning 70 years old, the poems in November Boughs are grouped under the heading "Sands at Seventy."They reflect his acknowledgment of his old age, but also his hope to continue writing until the very end, whenever that would be.

Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.