Accession number
PML 77363
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Published
Philadelphia : David McKay, 1891.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Frederick F. Koch, 1981.
Notes
First edition; large paper copy.
Envelope in back contains a scribbled note by Traaubel and four photographs of Whitman, all annotated: "From the personal collection of Walt Whitman. H.T."
Envelope in back contains a scribbled note by Traaubel and four photographs of Whitman, all annotated: "From the personal collection of Walt Whitman. H.T."
Description
66 p., 1 leaf of plates : front. (port.) ; 25 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription from H.T (Horace Traubel, Whitman's literary executor) to Clarence Darrow dated "Camden 1903". With an added note that this edition was for Whitman's friends and never sold to the public.
Provenance
Horace Traubel; Clarence Darrow; Marjory Wiggins Prescott (sale 1981).
Binding
Publisher's green cloth, gilt-stamped.
Classification
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