The Leaves of Grass

An excellent copy. Illustrated with woodcuts by Valenti Angelo. Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn at the Grabhorn Press. Hardback folio bound in original quarter morocco leather over wood boards. 14 1/2” x 9 7/8”, 423 pages, Thirty-seven woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Printed in handset Goudy New Style on Unbleached Arnold paper. Front board with decorative Random House logo engraved in wood. One of 400 numbered copies. This is considered the high point of the long-lived press and one of the greatest private press American books of the 20th Century. Published the same year as Rockwell Kent’s Moby Dick. Beautifully printed, heavy paper, spacious layout. Containing all of Whitman’s poems following the arrangement of the 1893-’92 edition. Condition: Near fine condition. The spine leather is very lightly sun faded, although evenly and not unattractively. Minor rubs to corners of leather spine and slight wear to bottom. internally bright, fresh pages in fine condition except for a very few pages with minor light spots. This seems common to all copies. Bookplate of Arte Johnson, the “very interesting” comedian who appeared on the TV comedy series “Laugh-In” in the 1960s.…