April 12, 2024
LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman ~ 1st Philadelphia Edition 1882 ~ Rees Welsh
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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman First Philadelphia edition of Whitman's classic, made from plates of the suppressed Boston edition published by Osgood Philadelphia: Rees Welsh Company, 1882. 382 pp. + author portrait at pg. 29. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering and floral endpapers. First edition thus, printing unknown. (No tipped-in ad on paste down.) Good condition hardcover. Clean pages. Cloth worn away/chewed at head and top of back board, wear to outer cloth. Light stains to pg. 28 and author photo. Rubbing to cloth, light crease to front board. Front hinge a little weak. Smudges to endpapers. Former owner's name on ffep, dated 1915. A solid copy.This edition of Leaves of Grass is similar to the "Deathbed Edition" but does not have certain grammatical corrections, nor does it have "November Boughs" and "Good-Bye My Fancy" as supplements and "A Backward Glance" as the closing essay [see the Leaves of Grass Annotation Project at Stockton College]. It has a morbid air; apparently the the yellow cloth was symbolic of the author's aging and the butterfly decoration on the spine shows the butterfly beginning to take flight [see Folsom's "Whitman Making Books"]. It sold quite well for Philadelphia publisher Rees Welsh following publicity from its Boston suppression.
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