Description

Hardcover, large octavo bound in gray cloth lettered in gold on spine, no dust-jacket. 264 pages. Edited with notes and introduction by Fredson Bowers. Includes Whitman’s List of Poems for a Third Edition and Index. Illustrated with photograph of Whitman in 1860 and three pages of holograph text from selected poems. Third printing. “This edition offers a parallel text for a large group of previously unpublished Whitman holograph manuscripts with the first printed appearance of these texts in the 1860, or third, edition of Leaves of Grass.” No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unused and unmarked copy, like new.