Extremely Rare Out-of-Print Original 1942 Unstated Edition. Pages clean, crisp and unmarked, with light tanning. Light wear. A few threads pulled on the top spine. Otherwise, No tears of the cloth. A hint of tanning of the outer pages as expected from time. Exlibris on inner cover. Inscribed and dated inner cover that allows us to know the closest day to the edition of this book. Images on listing, are of this book.

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First self-published copy of Leaves of Grass, published on July 4, 1855 in Brooklyn, NY. 795 copies were printed, although only 200 copies were bound with the green cover.

Walt Whitman continued to work on this masterwork until his death. Six more versions appeared during his lifetime, and after his death a “death-bed” version appeared.

History buffs will know that the 1855 edition was printed six years before Abraham Lincoln became president. Later editions are important because of the poems Whitman wrote about the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln.