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Leaves of grass : including Sands at seventy -- 1st annex, Good-bye my fancy -- 2d annex, A backward glance o'er travel'd roads, and Portrait from life / Walt Whitman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W 1891.3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 438 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : David McKay, 1891-'2.
- Notes:
- Author's name in facsimile autograph.
- Known as Deathbed edition.
- Local Notes:
- "Death-bed issue". Rough gray-brown paper wrappers, uncut. No Label.
- Inscribed on title-page to "J.W. Wallce f'm the author with best wishes remembrances & love." Probably the last book ever inscribed by Whitman. Only one other copy of this edition is known to have been autographed by the poet.
- Cited in:
- BAL 21440
- Myerson, J. Whitman, p. 113-119, 135-136
- OCLC:
- 1248323
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