[Rarebooks] FS: Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, SIGNED by Whitman

[Charles Agvent]

[WALT WHITMAN] TRAUBEL, Horace (editor) CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT 
WHITMAN. MAY 31, 1889. NOTES, ADDRESSES, LETTERS, TELEGRAMS.
David McKay Philadelphia 1889 First Edition. Decorated maroon cloth, 
frontispiece portrait of Whitman after a sculpture by Sidney H. Morse. 
BAL 21436. SIGNED by the great poet 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.       $4000.00
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