WHITMAN WALT Passage to India

Sale 2462 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 3,120

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

WHITMAN, WALT. Passage to India. 8vo, original pale-green glazed printed wrappers, recased with wrappers stabilized and backed on paper, light edgewear, small chip to backstrip foot, fore-edges uncut, ownership inscription dated 22 July 1894 inked to front wrapper (few other indications, one partly effaced), partly unopened; penciled note at end; preserved in cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. Washington, D.C.: Printed for Whitman by J.S. Redfield, 1871

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first edition, first printing, first issue, retaining the scarce fragile wrappers. Later issues and/or printings were combined with Leaves of Grass. Neither ABPC nor Rare Book Hub trace any copies at auction since 1980. A remarkably well-preserved example. Myerson A5.1.a.