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Price: US$645.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Collection of poems/essays/reminiscences. First Edn., 1891; full burgundy cloth; titling/facsinile signature/publisher's logo blocked in gilt (bright) to front board; titling blocked in gilt (moderately dulled) to spine; top edge gilt (moderately dulled); 66pp.; illus. bw. photo. (portait frontispiece). Lightly soiled/moderately faded spine rubbed/crushed at top/tail, but complete/intact; rear joint very faded; boards slightly scuffed, and rear board moderately faded at top edge, but boards quitr crispfore/bottom edges slightly tanned; slight foxing to endpapers/preliminaries, but pages generally clean/bright/very crisp; front hinge very tender, but binding holding; all complete/intact. Front free endpaper inscribed (in black ink) by Katharine St. John Conway (maiden name of socialist pioneer/activist, Katharine Bruce Glasier (1867-1950)), and dated 26th Nov. 1892. Also inscribed, probably in another (but contemporary) hand, are brief references to the Norwich-born Socialist pioneer/politician, Fred Henderson (James Frederick 'Fred' Henderson, 1867-1957). With Typed Letter Signed (on headed paper printed with Norwich Public Libraries, Central Library, Norwich, and dated 27th May, 1953) from the City Librarian, Philip Hepworth, to Alderman Fred Henderson, JP of Earlham Rise, Norwich, in which he lists auction prices realised for First Edn. copies of Walt Whitman's 'Good-bye My Fancy' (letter typed to recto; paper has one horizontal/two vertical folds, with very small tear (approx. 10mm) to bottom edge, but paper very clean/bright; signature ('P. Hepworth') in ink, and fresh). Photographs may be made available upon request. Good. PRICE INCLUDES UK SPECIAL DELIVERY POSTAGE & PACKING.
Seller: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, United Kingdom
Whitman, Walt. November Boughs. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1891.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 140pp, [1pp ads]. Green cloth, beveled edges. Title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. The third printing, with advertisements for Whitman books published by McKay on page [141]. Contains corrected "melee" for "m lee" on page 6, and "least" for "last" on page 11. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, light wear to spine ends and corners. (Myerson A12.I.c) (BAL 21430) Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "A first edition / With the compliments of Thomas B. Harned / Literary Executor to Walt Whitman / April 15, 17." Two letters laid in: one is a facsimile copy of a letter from Walt Whitman to a magazine publisher sharing his latest manuscript, and the other is a handwritten letter from Thomas Harned explaining the story of the former letter. Thomas Biggs Harned (1851-1921) was Walt Whitman's third and final literary executor. Harned was 22 years old when he met Whitman, and the two were engaged almost daily in the final years of Whitman's life. Harned received the facsimile letter included with this copy from Dr. Edward Everett Hale. The letter is addressed to Nathan Hale, Jr., Edward Everett Hale's brother, who was editor of the Boston Miscellany. Whitman was writing Hale asking to have his latest manuscript titled "The Angel of Tears" published in the magazine. "The Angel of Tears" was eventually published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in September, 1842.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: Original green cloth, uncut, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Whitman, another portrait of Whitman inserted at page 29, and four folding facsimiles of Whitman's writing. BAL 21441: Printing 1, Binding C. "Deathbed" Edition, Whitman's final arrangement of his work. This copy SIGNED on the title page by Pennsylvania ornithological artist Conrad Roland with his pencil notes in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as well as a full-page of pencil notes at the rear about Whitman. In addition tipped in before the title page is a fine ORIGINAL ink and sepia watercolor drawing of Whitman by Roland. Paper split at front gutter with cover a little loose. Two small portrait reproductions tipped in with one offsetting to the text opposite. Trivial wear to the binding. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.