[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: WALT WHITMAN

[Norman Kane]

WHITMAN, WALT.  AN AMERICAN PRIMER WITH FACSIMILES OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. EDITED BY HORACE TRAUBEL.  Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1904. First edition. Original blue  cloth stamped in blue, very good. Portrait (sometimes lacking.) ONE OF 500 COPIES ONLY. Myerson A19.I.a, binding B. 

WHITMAN.  COMPLETE PROSE WORKS. SPECIMEN DAYS AND COLLECT, NOVEMBER BOUGHS & GOOD BYE MY FANCY.  Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1907. Original cloth, somewhat worn & repaired, moderate stain on bottom margin.  Gertrude Traubel's copy (Horace Traubel's daughter) with her name twice, her ms. index on the end papers, a sheet laid in quoting Traubel and a clipping from an 1886 London paper regarding Whitman's description of the Union Army Victory Parade. Myerson C6.2.d.

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