Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DARTMOUTH COMMENCEMENT WHITMAN, WALT. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. Signed and Inscribed to Malcolm Storer, on the front free endpaper. 8vo, publisher's cloth; rubbing to edges; brown ink inscribed on brown tinted paper, horizontal fold in front endpapers, minor scattered staining to signature page, Storer's bookplate on front pastedown. first edition. sold as is. Washington, 1872; inscription: Np, 13 June 1884

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Whitman composed this poem for the 1872 commencement ceremonies at Dartmouth College.