[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Walt Whitman First Edition: NOVEMBER BOUGHS, 1888

[Charles Agvent]

WHITMAN, Walt. NOVEMBER BOUGHS. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. First 
Edition. Decorated green cloth. BAL 21430: Printing 3. Winship believes 
this is one of 400 copies printed in 1891 and intended by Whitman to be 
bound with GOODBYE MY FANCY until illness prevented him from pursuing 
his plans. SIGNED by the author on the front blank and INSCRIBED by 
Horace Traubel on the front free endpaper in 1903 to Larson Butler with 
initialled note below the inscription by Traubel stating that "this edn 
of N. B. bound in green was designed by W.W. for his friends, not for 
the market, + was never anywhere put on sale." Fine association. Few 
very small stains on front cover, front hinge gently cracked. Close to 
Fine with superb signature and inscription. (#002646)     $7,500

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