Whitman Walt (1819-1892)

Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass , Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61, third edition, likely second printing, with frontis portrait in third state (without tinting, signed S. A. Schoff), copyright page lacking publishers' imprints, in original pebbled maroon cloth with blind embossing, spine with gilt title, over butterfly on hand not in circle, over author's name in oval, 8vo, (starting, bumped and chipped, spine faded, two loose central gathers, soiling, toning).