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Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s blue pictorial dust-jacket. 291 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with several vignette half-toned photographs. No publishing history on copyright page, presumed first, albeit unclipped dust-jacket lacks price. Makes the argument that the nascent feminist movement, both official and collateral, influenced successive editions of Leaves of Grass and served to radicalize Whitman’s thinking regarding Woman’s rights. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and unmarked copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.