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Lot 286

Sale 5670 - Fine Books
Sep 29, 2005 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$7,000
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1 vol.
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1 vol.
Whitman, Walt. Complete Poems & Prose, 1855... 1888. [Camden, N.J.], [1889.] 1/600 signed by Whitman. 8vo, orig. green cloth back & corners, marbled bds., paper spine label; occasional edge wear, bds. occasionally scuffed, occasional minor scuffing to label. 2 portraits. Untrimmed & largely unopened. Internally clean. Signed by Whitman on Leaves of Grass title page. Presentation copy to Norton Downs signed & inscribed by Horace Traubel on front free endpaper, "To Norton Downs from Horace Traubel, April 1893, In Memory of Walt Whitman & gratefulness for services to him & to me."
Without limitation statements on verso of "note at beginning" or on title leaf, consistent with other copies in bdg. A examined by BAL.
BAL 21431, bdg. A

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