$2,520
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
Auction: June 8, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Signed First Edition
Camden, New Jersey, 1876. Author's Edition (first edition, second issue; one of only 600-650 copies printed). 8vo. Signed by Whitman on mounted photographic portrait, "Walt Whitman / born May 31 / 1819". Publisher's three-quarter tan morocco over green marbled paper-covered boards, brown morocco spine label, stamped in blind and in gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine darkened, boards and extremities rubbed and soiled; all edges trimmed; yellow endpapers; green morocco book-plate of Estelle Doheny on front paste-down. Myerson A9.1.b; BAL 21413; Wells and Goldsmith, pp. 21-22