[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Walt Whitman First Edition

[charles agvent]

TRAUBEL, HORACE (EDITOR) [WALT WHITMAN]. CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT 
WHITMAN. MAY 31, 1889. NOTES, ADDRESSES, LETTERS, TELEGRAMS. 
Philadelphia: David McKay 1889. First Edition. Decorated maroon cloth, 
frontispiece portrait of Whitman after a sculpture by Sidney H. Morse. 
BAL 21436. SIGNED by Whitman on the front endpaper and dated "Dec: 16 
'89." The earliest inscribed copy noted by Blanck was in November. 
This tribute to Whitman on his seventieth birthday contains one 
contribution by him as well as contributions by Mark Twain, John 
Burroughs,Richard Bucke, William Dean Howells, John G. Whittier, and 
many others. Title page has the following interesting inscription: 
"From Judge Garrison,1907, while visiting him. Ralph Wesley Wescott," 
likely Judge Garrison of Brooklyn. Small area of light discoloration 
on the front cover but a very nice copy indeed housed in a cloth 
clamshell box with a leather gilt-lettered label on the backstrip. 
Near Fine with a fine signature.    $4000

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