Whitman, Walt

8vo (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 197 x 128 mm). "Remembrance Copy" leaf and 2 engraved portraits of Whitman, advertisement leaf at end. Publisher's dark purplish red cloth, covers with blind-stamped frame, upper cover gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, light green floral-embossed endpapers; rubbed, extremities a bit worn, especially front joint and spine ends.

Feinberg 294; Myerson A8.1.a; Wells & Goldsmith pp. 19–20

8vo (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 197 x 128 mm). "Remembrance Copy" leaf and 2 engraved portraits of Whitman, advertisement leaf at end. Publisher's dark purplish red cloth, covers with blind-stamped triple-ruled frame, upper cover gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, light green embossed endpapers; rubbed, extremities a bit worn, especially spine ends.
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First edition, second issue, with the desirable "Remembrance Copy" leaf accomplished and signed by Whitman. This copy was presented to "Miss E N Morris." "Almost every copy was autographed and it is improbable that more than a hundred copies were issued. The book is exceedingly rare" (Wells & Goldsmith). Memoranda of the War consists of Whitman's first-person observations of the war, written 1863–65. It was later incorporated into Specimen Days.