LEAVES OF GRASS (bound with) PASSAGE TO INDIA
Washington, D.C. 1872. "Complete" edition. Cloth. 1872 edition (called "Complete" on the spine). Publisher unnamed. A Good + copy. 8vo., vi, 384; title page for Passage to India, iv, (5)-120 pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles. Moderate edge wear. Light soiling. Hinges starting, with webbing partially showing. Previous owner's book plate. Good +. Item #38862
Major pars:
Inscriptions
Children of Adam
Calamus
The Answerer
Drum-Taps
Marches now the War is Over
Bathed in War's Perfume
Songs of Insurrection
Songs of Parting
This simple edition was delayed when the binder went bankrupt and is the first to not include a portrait of Whitman.
Bookplate of Thomas Bird Mosher (1852–1923), an American publisher out of Portland, Maine.
Price: $650.00