Item 1241Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (association copy)
NY: Viking, 1959. First thus. Hardcover. Wallace Stegner's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. One of 475 copies "specially bound as a Christmas remembrance for friends of The Viking Press." Uncommon as such, and a seemingly uncommon book in the trade edition as well. With a......