Description

Hardcover, black cloth with decorative paper paste-downs on boards, in publisher’s matching paper covered slipcase. 90 pages. With a brief appreciation by Mark Van Doren. A presentation copy presented to the Commissioner, Dept.of Public Works, the Hon. Frederick H. Zurmuhlen, so printed on the verso of page facing title-page. Stated first edition. limited to seventeen hundred copies produced by Book Craftsmen Associates. A play about the life of Walt Whitman, written in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the publication of “Leaves of Grass”. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Slipcase is fine with mild incidental toning to extremities. Fine in a near fine slipcase.