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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855...1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W. W. )... Portraits from Lif
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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855...1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W. W. )... Portraits from Lif

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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855...1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W. W. )... Portraits from Life... Autograph. [Philadelphia: for the author by the Ferguson Brothers, 1888]. Large 8vo. Illustrated with portrait title-page and two inserted portrait leaves. 382, 374, 140, 2 pp. Handsomely bound in modern full brown morocco, boards ruled and paneled in gilt, spine ruled, tooled, and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands. 

THE RARE FIRST LIMITED EDITION, "Edition: Six Hundred / Number Five Hundred Forty-Eight" (written in manuscript by Horace Traubel, Whitman's literary executor and biographer), SIGNED BY WHITMAN ON THE TITLE-PAGE OF LEAVES OF GRASS. Contains printings of Leaves of Grass (1881), Specimen Days and Collect (1882), and November Boughs (1888). Each printing paginated separately for a total of 898 pages bound into one volume.

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Minor occasional soiling in text. Fine.

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