$1,890
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
Auction: June 8, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
1876 Author's Edition, Signed by Walt Whitman
Camden, New Jersey, 1876. Author's Edition (one of only 600 copies printed). 8vo. 384, (2), (1) (ad) pp. Signed by Whitman on title-page. Illustrated with Hollyer engraving of Whitman facing p. (29) and portrait facing p. 285. Publisher's three-quarter tan morocco over green marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, extremities and boards rubbed; all edges trimmed; yellow endpapers; from the library of American bibliophile Frederick W. Skiff (1867-1947) and with his illustrated book-plate on front paste-down. Myerson A2.5.c2; BAL 21412; Wells and Goldsmith pp. 20-21