[Rarebooks] FS: Mary Mapes Dodge's Copy of Walt Whitman's THE WOUND DRESSER

[Charles Agvent]

WHITMAN, Walt. THE WOUND DRESSER. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE 
HOSPITALS IN WASHINGTON DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. Boston: Small, 
Maynard & Company, 1898. First Edition. Original gilt-lettered red 
cloth. Edited with a preface by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's 
literary executors. BAL 21448: Issue 2; Meyerson A15.1.a. Illustrated 
with a portrait of Whitman from a photograph by Gardner. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by another of Whitman's literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, on 
20 February 1898 to renowned author Mary Mapes Dodge, the recognized 
leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth 
century. For more than 30 years Dodge edited ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, the 
primary magazine for children at the time. She also wrote the classic 
HANS BRINKER, OR THE SILVER SKATES. Below Harned's inscription in an 
unknown hand is written the following quote from "George Fox (and 
Shakspere)" in NOVEMBER BOUGHS: "I say whoever labors here, makes 
contributions here, or best of all sets an incarnated example here, of 
life or death, is dearest to humanity—remains after the rest are gone." 
Largely unopened; slight paper split to front hinge but covers very 
tight and firm; offsetting from newspaper clipping between two initial 
blanks. Fine copy. (#019352)        $1,750.00

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