![]() Whitman stated he only had his working copy. Linton, the famous artist who engraved Whitman’s portrait for the 1876 edition of Leaves, personally related to him that in the 1860s he had met Whitman “of whom he requested a copy of the original edition of Leaves of Grass. ![]() Skiff - the noted Americana collector who authored two books on the subject - explains this copy’s provenance. The present copy is unique among known signed copies both for its method of signature and for being in the first state (“A”) of the binding.Īn accompanying hand-written statement by F.W. Signed copies of the 1855 Leaves are a Very Great Rarity. Much has been said in praise of Whitman and his poetry over the years, but perhaps the most significant is that Leaves of Grass is the only work of modern poetry to be included in Printing and the Mind of Man (# 340, where it is called “America’s 2nd Declaration of Independence”). “The poet of the American Ideal,” Whitman pioneered a “transcendent and new” form of free verse poetry which brashly celebrated the self and the democratic perspective. ![]() ![]() “The Greatest Book Ever Given the World by an American Author.”Ī Revolution in World Literature, Leaves of Grass is the first work to explicitly mine the modern stream of consciousness. Original Cloth State “A” of the Binding some expert restoration to spine and several text leaves. ![]() SIGNED BY WHITMAN IN PRINT LETTERS ON THE TITLE. ![]()
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