WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855...1888. Authenticated and Personal Book (handled by W.W.)... Portraits from Life...Autograph. [Philadelphia: for the author by the Ferguson Brothers, 1888].
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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855...1888. Authenticated and Personal Book (handled by W.W.)... Portraits from Life...Autograph. [Philadelphia: for the author by the Ferguson Brothers, 1888].
Large 8vo. Pictorial title-page and 2 portrait plates. Original half green cloth, marbled boards, printed paper label to spine (minor chipping), uncut (upper hinge repaired, lower hinge starting, a touch of slight wear to extremities); green morocco folding case.
LIMITED EDITION, number 58 of 600 copies signed by Whitman (as usual on the title-page of Leaves of Grass) with Horace Traubel's autograph statement of limitation. The present copy is one of 150 copies in this binding [BAL and Myerson's Binding A, priority assumed]. The remaining copies of the work were bound between 1889 and 1891. BAL 21431; Grolier, American 67; Myerson A2.7m.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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