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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1889. 8° (179 x 115mm.). Portrait photograph laid down on frontispiece of Whitman seated in profile, holding a flower, 5 portraits. Original black roan wallet with tab. (Extremities rubbed). ONE OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Provenance: inscribed to Fred Wild by J. Johnston and J. W. Wallace, 9 January 1891.
WHITMAN'S 'SPECIAL, COMPLETE, FINAL UTTERANCE'. Whitman's preface describes the motivation for this special edition: "Today, finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special, complete, final utterance, in one handy volume ... And for testimony to all (and in good measure,) I here with pen and ink append my name." A fragment of an envelope addressed to Fred Wild, apparently in the autograph of Whitman and signed by him, accompanies the lot.
WHITMAN'S 'SPECIAL, COMPLETE, FINAL UTTERANCE'. Whitman's preface describes the motivation for this special edition: "Today, finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special, complete, final utterance, in one handy volume ... And for testimony to all (and in good measure,) I here with pen and ink append my name." A fragment of an envelope addressed to Fred Wild, apparently in the autograph of Whitman and signed by him, accompanies the lot.
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