Grabhorn Press Leaves of Grass 1/400 copies
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Author: Whitman, Walt
Title: Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: 1930
Description:
Author: Whitman, Walt
Title: Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Random House
Date Published: 1930
Description:
Numerous woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo. (Folio) 36.8x25 cm. (14½x9¾"), original red morocco-backed wood boards, raised bands. No. 93 of 400 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn.
The famous Grabhorn Leaves of Grass, one of their most ambitious achievements, taking over a year to print. "The tremendous impression necessary to print this book so strained the press that the printers suggested the colophon should read: '400 copies printed and the press destroyed'" (Grabhorn Bibliography I). GB 138.
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Lightly rubbed, spine a touch sunned; internally clean; near fine.
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Grabhorn Press Leaves of Grass 1/400 copies
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