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• Author/Creator:Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
  
• Title:Leaves of grass.
  
• Published/Created:Brooklyn, New York, 1856.
  
• Physical Description:iv, [5]-384 p. front. (port.) 17 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Za W596 856
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of curator.
    

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Za W596 856
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of curator.
    

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Za W596 856
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of curator.
    

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Za W596 856
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of curator.
    

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Za W596 856
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of curator.
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN Za W596 856 Copy 1: 1 l. publishers advertisements inserted following p. 284. In original cloth.
  BEIN Za W596 856 Copy 2: In original cloth.
  BEIN Za W596 856 Copy 3: In original cloth.
  BEIN Za W596 856 Copy 4: Rebound.
  BEIN Za W596 856 Copy 5: In original cloth. Has markings by the Hon. John Oakey, Yale '49. Clips from Brooklyn papers concerning his talk on Whitman, 4 Apr. 1869.
  
• Notes:First edition Brooklyn, 1855.
  On cover: "Leaves of grass," followed in gold by author's name and a quotation from one of Emerson's letters: I greet you at the beginning of a great career R W Emerson.
  "Leaves-droppings," Emerson's letter of July 21, 1855, with Whitman's reply of Aug. 1856, and press notices of the 1855 edition: p. [343]-384.
  "This volume was published by Fowler & Wells, N. Y., though their names do not appear on the title-page. On account of criticism this firm abandoned the sale. But few copies were sold." cf. Bibliog. of Whitman by
  O. L. Triggs (in "The complete writings of Walt Whitman." Prose works v. 7)
  
• Access and use:CtY-BR BEIN Za W596 856 Copies 1-5: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use.
• Format:Book
• Subjects (Local Yale):Oakey, John, Honorable--Ms. notes.