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A life of Walt Whitman / by Henry Bryan Binns ; with thirty-three illustrations.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dreiser Library PS3231 .B5 1905
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Binns, Henry Bryan, 1873-1923, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Local Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (inscription, 29 Jan. 1907)
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Wallace, J. W. (James William), 1853-1926 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Johnston, John, 1852-1927 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 369 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 40 pages, 33 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Aberdeen] : The Aberdeen University Press Limited.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen & Co. ..., [1905]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Whitman's America
- The Whitman's of West Hills
- Boyhood in Brooklyn
- Teacher and journalist
- Romance (1848)
- Illumination
- The carpenter
- Whitman's manifesto
- The mystic
- "Year of meteors"
- The testament of a comrade
- America at war
- The proof of comradeship
- A Washington clerk
- Friends and fame
- Illness
- Convalescence
- The second Boston edition
- Among the prophets
- He becomes a householder
- At Mickle Street
- "Good-bye, my fancy"
- Appendix A: Note on the Williamses
- Appendix B: Whitman in New Orleans.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1905"--Verso of title leaf.
- "The Aberdeen University Press Limited"--Page 369.
- "A catalogue of books published by Methuen and Company ... October 1905": Pages 1-40 (second count).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("To J.W. Wallace With affectionate greeting & all good wishes, from J. Johnston Christmas, 1905") on front free endpaper.
- Whitman Collection has stiff printed paper slip ("Biographers of Walt Whitman") laid in.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, D 43, page 513
- Other Format:
- Online version: Binns, Henry Bryan, 1873-1923. Life of Walt Whitman.
- OCLC:
- 1615281
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