Walt Whitman
November Boughs
David McKay
Circa 1888 - 1891
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First-edition copy of Whitman's November Boughs, inscribed by Horace Traubel, Whitman's friend and literary executor.
- Walt Whitman (American).
- Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888 [1891].
- Includes portrait in the text but no frontispiece photograph inserted (as issued).
- Inscribed by Traubel on the front blank endleaf, "To Mary & Joseph Tels, February Eighteen Hundred Ninety-Five, Traubel".
- Bound in the publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge tinted red, others uncut and unopened as issued.
"These sheets are probably the 400 copies printed in May, 1891. . . . It seems probable . . . that after Whitman's death his executors had these sheets and the remainder of Good-Bye My Fancy bound in uniform, but separate, bindings." (BAL 21430, printing 3).
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GoodLight general handling to binding.
Pages toned.
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