Portable Walt Whitman by Whitman, Walt - 1969

Viking Press. Very Good. 1969. Paperback. 0670010111 . A large Mass Market paperback in Very Good condition. Square, tightly bound with a clean, unmarked interior. Spine creasing with cover edgewear. "When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass , and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days , and Slang in America ." ; 7.20 X 3.90 X 1.30 inches; 695 pages .