Limited Editions Club Edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Signed by Edward Weston

Walt Whitman; Edward Weston [photographs]. LEAVES OF GRASS. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. (2) volumes (complete). Limited edition; no. 1247 of an unspecified number of copies. Signed by Edward Weston in green ink on the colophon. Photographically illustrated green paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine labels; in orignal slipcase; text printed on pale green paper. Slim 4tos; xxix, [3], 123, [1]pp.; [5], 124-264pp. plus index and colophon. Introduction by Mark Van Doren.

12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. in slipcase

One of the best books that LEC produced. "The photographs were made by Edward Weston in an extensive tour of democratic America taken by him for this purpose in the years 1941 and 1942" (from the colophon).

Areas of toning to boards (heaviest on spines and vol. 2), spine labels and a couple of corners with light wear; foxing to page edges; endpapers with spotting mostly along hinges (heaviest in vol. 2), with additional light spotting at some gutters; final introduction leaf possibly extended; occasional offsetting, minor mark, or spot of foxing, and endpapers and some leaves with mild toning, otherwise pages extremely clean; slipcase with significant wear. About very good volumes in fair to good slipcase.