A Whitman manuscript from the Albert M. Bender Collection of Mills College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941.

Mills College. Library.

Mills College. Bibliophile Society, publisher.

Eucalyptus Press, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Technique.

Whitman, Walt.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Technique.

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 11-21 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : facsimile ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

[Oakland, California] : Printed at the Eucalyptus Press, Mills College ..., January, 1939.

Place of Publication:

[Oakland, California] : Bibliophile Society of Mills College, MCMXXXIX [1939]

Contents:

Reproduction of Whitman's manuscript (frontispiece)

Foreword by Oscar Lewis

After the sea-ship (the poem as published in Leaves of grass)

Whitman's revisions, by S.L. Gulick, Jr.

Waves in the vessel's wake (the revised reading of the poem)

Readings of canceled words.

Notes:

"175 copies printed at the Eucalyptus press, Mills College, in the month of January, 1939"--Page [23].

Myerson notes two different binding styles ("A"-"B"). For a full description of each, see Myerson page 349.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy is no. 143 of a limited edition of 175 copies. See page [23].

Whitman Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1940.

Whitman Collection copy bound in Myerson's binding style "B".

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 33, page 348-[350]

Other Format:

Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Whitman manuscript from the Albert M. Bender collection of Mills college.

OCLC:

6498883