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Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, And Passage To India. 1876 Signed Photo By Whitman
by Whitman, Walts
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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VINELAND, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Camden, New Jersey: Author's Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition; reissue. Leather. Photo Frontis; Author's Edition with a signed albumen photograph of Whitman dated (with the date of his birth) mounted as a frontispiece, first edition (issue with a blank leaf between "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" and "Memoranda During the War"). Contemporary three quarters calf over marbled boards, the spine rebacked to style in modern leather with lettering label. 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (19 x 11 cm) ; 32, [1 blank leaf], 84, [1 blank leaf], 18, [1 blank leaf], [iv], v-x, [4], 14, [2], [1 blank leaf], 68 [1 blank leaf], [i-iii], iv, [1], 6-120, [1 blank leaf], [1 Ad leaf]. Light spotting to title, frontis and endleaves, endpapers preserved but with similarly colored strengthening strips at hinges, original portions of binding rubbed and worn. This copy conforms to BAL 21413, a reissue of the first edition with numerous revisions and corrections. First printing sheets with the frontispiece caption in three lines and the ad leaf headed "Autograph and Portrait Edition of Walt Whitman's Complete Works." A sound and clean copy of this scarce piece. ; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38955
- Title
- Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, And Passage To India. 1876 Signed Photo By Whitman
- Author
- Whitman, Walts
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; reissue
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Author's Edition
- Place of Publication
- Camden, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1876
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