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WHITMAN, WALT. Complete Poems & Prose ... 1855 ... 1888. [2], 382; vi, [7]-374; 140, 2 pp. Illustrated with 3 inserted portraits and pictorial title printed on coated paper. Large 8vo, original 3/4 calf over blue-green cloth by Oldach & Co., rebacked with new lettering pieces (BAL's binding B, no sequence), top edges gilt, extremities scuffed, marbled endpapers; hinges strengthened, contents generally clean. From the Estate of Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer-winning biographer. Mr. Silverman was a specialist in Colonial American literature and the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University. [Camden, N.J.: 1888]
first collected edition of whitman's works, limited to 600 copies, signed by the author on the sectional title for leaves of grass. This copy number 37, with a handwritten limitation statement in red ink on the page opposite Whitman's signature (no ink transfer). Collects Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days and Collect, and November Boughs. BAL 21431; Myerson A2.7m.
