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WHITMAN, Walt. Memoranda During the War. Camden, 1875-76. 8o. Remembrance leaf, two engraved portraits of Whitman. (Lacking advertisement leaf at end, first seven leaves loose, edges chipped.) Original plum cloth, gilt-lettered on cover, edges gilt, green coated embossed endpapers (worn and faded, hinges cracked).
FIRST EDITION, second (but just separate) issue, with the preliminary leaves. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WHITMAN on the "Remembrance" leaf: "[To:] each Conductor & Driver on the Camden horse-cars [From:] their friend the author." EXTENSIVELY INSCRIBED by Whitman on the front free endpaper: "This book I give to be read by the conductors & drivers Camden horse cars Isaac Price John Williamson Dan Herbert Aldrich Gid Jackson Mr. Wood Mark Fritz Davis John Wm Hamm James George Pass it from one to another, till all who wish to read it may have a chance. W.W." Whitman always felt an affinity for horse-car drivers, befriending them in his years in both Camden and Washington. Most notable was his lover Peter Doyle, whom he met in Washington in 1865. Isaac Price, the first person to whom this book is inscribed, remembered later: "You know Walt Whitman never bought street car tickets one at a time. He'd buy a dollar's worth, and sometimes he'd stay on the car till it had gone from end to end of the line two or three times. He used to like to ride the ferries, too, and he knew most of the street car and ferry men by name" (newspaper clipping laid in). BAL 21409; Meyerson A8.1.a2. See note to previous lot.
FIRST EDITION, second (but just separate) issue, with the preliminary leaves. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WHITMAN on the "Remembrance" leaf: "[To:] each Conductor & Driver on the Camden horse-cars [From:] their friend the author." EXTENSIVELY INSCRIBED by Whitman on the front free endpaper: "This book I give to be read by the conductors & drivers Camden horse cars Isaac Price John Williamson Dan Herbert Aldrich Gid Jackson Mr. Wood Mark Fritz Davis John Wm Hamm James George Pass it from one to another, till all who wish to read it may have a chance. W.W." Whitman always felt an affinity for horse-car drivers, befriending them in his years in both Camden and Washington. Most notable was his lover Peter Doyle, whom he met in Washington in 1865. Isaac Price, the first person to whom this book is inscribed, remembered later: "You know Walt Whitman never bought street car tickets one at a time. He'd buy a dollar's worth, and sometimes he'd stay on the car till it had gone from end to end of the line two or three times. He used to like to ride the ferries, too, and he knew most of the street car and ferry men by name" (newspaper clipping laid in). BAL 21409; Meyerson A8.1.a2. See note to previous lot.