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Grabhorn Press Leaves of Grass

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Title: Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2
Author: Whitman, Walt
Description: Numerous woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo. 14½x9¾, half red morocco and wood boards, raised bands. No. 164 of 400 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn.Inscribed by Valenti Angelo at the limitation statement. 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.
Heading: (Grabhorn Press)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1930