Description

Hardcover. blue cloth lettered on gold. 505 pages. Contains Preface to the First Issue of Leaves of Grass (1855); Index to Titles and Index to First Lines. Edited, with an introduction, by John Valente. Third printing in the MacMillan Modern Reader’s Series. No previous ownership marks. End-papers toned at gutters, very brief sporadic underlining to introduction and several other pages. Slight waviness to lower page margins, evidence of old exposure to moisture, but no stain or tide-mark. Still a solid, clean, very good reading copy. Good.