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WHITMAN, WALT. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. 8-pages advertisements at end. 8vo, original gilt-lettered dark green cloth, minimal rubbing to spine tips and corners; Marion Nelson Waldrip bookplate tipped to front pastedown with portion offset to facing endpaper containing inscription. Washington, D.C.: (Printed by S.W. Green for the Author), 1872
first edition, first issue. inscribed by whitman's amanuensis horace traubel in black pen on front free endpaper, reads in full: "To Mr [illegible] / Mar[ch] 1893 / from Horace Traubel / This volume is out / of the personal / collection of Walt / Whitman." Myerson A 7.I.a.
