Whitman, Walt.

Complete Prose Works – Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy [No.10 of only 30 copies of the English Edition, signed “G.P.Putnam’s Sons” [possibly John Bishop Putnam (1849 – 1915)].

Boston / London, Small, Maynard & Company / G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1898. Slim Quarto (16.5 cm wide x 23.8 cm high). Pagination: Limitation-page, Half-Title, Portrait-Frontispiece, XIII, [2], 527 pages. With a sticker identifying the book as “Large Paper-Edition”. With eight illustrations (including Frontispiece). Hardcover / Original, green Publisher’s cloth. Very poor codnition. Former library copy of Christ’s Hospital Library. Still a rare and good- Reading Copy.

With a number of very interesting illustrations and photographs:

1. Walt Whitman Portraitfrom a painting by Charles Hine
2. Walt Whitman’s Birthplace
3. Fac-Simile of Mss. from an unpublished Note Book on Homer, owned by Horace L.Traubel
4. Walt Whitman – from a daguerreotype about 1855
5. Walt Whitman ‘s Residence – “The Little House in Mickle Street, Camden, N.J.″
6. Elias Hicks
7. Walt Whitman’s Tomb
8. Walt WHitman – Froma a negative by Thomas Eakins

• Keywords: American History – Rare · American Literature – Rare · American Poet · American Poetry · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Catalogue No.19 – American History and Politics · Limited Edition · Signed · Whitman, Walt
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32418AB

EUR 380,-- 

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