Salut au Monde!; From "Leaves of Grass" [Signed]

Salut au Monde!; From "Leaves of Grass" [Signed]

Whitman, Walt; Preissig, Vojtech [Illustrator]

Random House, 1930


Signed (by the illustrator, Preissig), limited edition.  26 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 40 x 30 cm. Bound in publisher's vellum-backed, cream boards.  Small nick on spine, otherwise as new.  Clean, unmarked pages. "'Salut au monde!' was first published in 1850. The present text is the final reading as printed in 1900 in David McKay's complete edition of 'Leaves of Grass'."--Page [8].  New fine book series, no. 1, printed in Czechoslovakia.  "This edition consists of 390 copies, of which 360 are for sale. The text has been printed on Zanders hand-made paper by the State Printing Office in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in a new type cut by Vojtech Preissig and cast by the same Office."--Colophon.

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Tags: Signed, Art, First Edition, Poetry, Verse