Lot 137

Whitman, Walt






Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Complete poems & prose, 1855-1888 [leaves of grass, and others]. Philadelphia: Ferguson Brothers & Co.,1888-89. 8vo, number 521 of 600 copies, signed by the author, facsimile letter and accompanying note bound in, engraved portrait and biography laid down onto first free-endpaper, 4 engraved plates, brown cloth with tipped-in note to final free-endpaper reading: "Private and Personal, Bound - 24/10/13 [signature] ... Dundee", t.e.g., bookplate of James C. Thomson to paste-down endpaper, front free-endpaper and title-page loose, some browning to preliminary pages and endpapers, in second section: ink spot to page 120 obscuring one letter, marginal tear to pages 165-166 with no loss of text, some pencil annotations, hinges weakening





