[Rarebooks] For Sale: The rare Catalog of the Williamson Whitman Collection

[Norman Kane]

CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF BOOKS LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS WRITTEN BY 
WALT WHITMAN IN THE LIBRARY OF GEORGE M. WILLIAMSON, GRAND VIEW ON 
HUDSON.    Jamaica, Queensborough, N. Y.: Marion Press; N.Y.: Dodd, 
Mead, 1903. First edition, one of 102 copies (whole edn, 
127.)  Quarto, original cloth with Whitman signature reproduced on 
cover, small worn spot at top of spine, foxing on end papers. In the 
original box (2-inch piece repaired at bottom edge.)  Frontispiece & 
illustrations of manuscripts (prose & poetry), WW's military pass, 
his oath of allegiance, title pages, autograph letters, corrected 
proof, &c.  Scarce; many copies came to ruin after the printer's 
death.   $425.00  (Trade Discount 10%.)

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