$819
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
Auction: June 8, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. In ten volumes. The Collector's Camden Edition, #161/300 numbered sets. 8vo. Each volume with engraved frontispiece and three plates, all printed on Japon vellum and all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's deluxe three-quarter green crushed morocco over linen-covered boards, spines elaborately gilt, morocco unevenly faded, boards and corners variously soiled, rubbed, and bumped, first volume rebacked; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; a few volumes with very light scattered foxing. Myerson B 4 (5)
An attractive set of Whitman's complete works, "Issued under the editorial supervision of his Literary Executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. With additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs." (from the title-page).