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Leaves of grass : with Sands at seventy, & A backward glance o'er travel'd roads ... / Walt Whitman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3201 1889 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902 (bookplate) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 404, 18 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : 6 portraits ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Special ed'n.
- Manufacture:
- Philadelphia : Ferguson Bros. & Co.
- Place of Publication:
- [Camden, New Jersey] : [Walt Whitman], [1889]
- Notes:
- Author's autograph on title leaf at end of printed note ("To-day, finishing my 70th year ... I here with pen and ink append my name:") dated: May 31, 1889.
- Copyright date 1881 on verso of general title leaf; Sands at seventy has copyright date 1888 on divisional title leaf; A backward glance o'er traveled roads has copyright date 1888 on verso of divisional title leaf.
- "(300 copies only printed--$5 each.)"
- "Frontispiece of stiff paper with original photograph of Whitman with butterfly pasted on verso. Single leaf with Hollyer engraving of Whitman printed on verso, followed by protective tissue, is inserted after p. 28; single leaves of coated paper with photograph of Whitman with hat printed on recto, head and shoulders photograph of Whitman by Gutekunst printed on recto (followed by protective tissue), W.J. Linton engraving of G.C. Potter photograph of Whitman printed on recto, and photograph of Whitman seated with cane printed on verso are inserted after pp. 132, 214, 296, 382."--Myerson.
- Myerson describes 3 states of binding ("A-C").
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has armorial bookplate ("R.M. Bucke") of Richard Maurice Bucke on front pastedown.
- Whitman Collection copy has the boards of binding state C and the "bellowslike pocket" of binding state B. For a full description of both states, see Myerson page 134.
- Cited in:
- BAL 21435
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A2.77.n, pages 131-135
- Contains:
- Sands at seventy.
- Backward glance o'er travel'd roads.
- OCLC:
- 1038163
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