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Lot 86
Sale 3721 - A Fine Collection of American Literature and History
Jun 8, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Literature] Whitman, Walt Song Of Myself
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1904. First and limited edition, #24/100 numbered copies printed on Japan Vellum and signed by Elbert Hubbard. Square 8vo. (viii), 70, (4) pp. Printed in red and in black. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece portrait of Whitman, with original tissue-guard. Publisher's three-quarter crimson levant over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, upper front spine slightly split; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; matching marbled endpapers; in what is likely original box. McKenna 108; Myerson H65.1a
A lovely copy of this finely printed Roycrofter's edition of Whitman's poem Song of Myself.