[Rarebooks] FS: Walt Whitman's Niece's Copy of LEAVES OF GRASS

[Charles Agvent]

WHITMAN, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. Including Sands At Seventy, Good Bye My 
Fancy, Old Age Echoes, And A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads. 
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1897. First Edition. Original green 
cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and a heavily gilt-decorated 
spine, uncut, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of an elderly 
Whitman. BAL 21447: without corrections made in later printings, 
Sequence 2, Binding D. Most of the text reprints previous material 
except for the 13 poems in "Old Age Echoes," which are printed here for 
the first time. A special copy in that the publishers have INSCRIBED it 
on the front endpaper to Walt Whitman's niece: "Miss Jessie L. 
Whitman/With the Compliments/of the Publishers." Paper split at front 
gutter, old dampstain at bottom gutter affecting the last half of the 
text; just a touch of wear to the spine tips. Overall Near Fine.

Jessie Louisa Whitman was the daughter of Walt Whitman's brother, 
Jefferson. She was close to her uncle all her life and was with him a 
few weeks before his death in 1892. She lived until 1957, just shy of 
her 94th birthday. (#019336)      $350

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