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CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN, MAY 31, 1889. NOTES, ADDRESSES, LETTERS, TELEGRAMS by Walt Whitman] | Horace Traubel (Editor) - 1889

by Walt Whitman] | Horace Traubel (Editor)

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CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN, MAY 31, 1889. NOTES, ADDRESSES, LETTERS, TELEGRAMS by Walt Whitman] | Horace Traubel (Editor) - 1889

CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN, MAY 31, 1889. NOTES, ADDRESSES, LETTERS, TELEGRAMS

by Walt Whitman] | Horace Traubel (Editor)

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Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. The tribute to Walt Whitman on his 70th birthday, organized by a "Committee of Citizens" in Camden. Contains the "Autobiographic Note & Response" by Whitman in which he alludes to this Quaker forebears and demurs to making after dinner remarks. With Whitman's own advertisement for his books on p. 74. There is foxing to the tissue guard of the frontispiece; else very nearly fine. Myerson notes that there were "1,000 copies printed, with Whitman receiving one of the first on 28 October, 1889" [Myerson, D17] (Myerson D-17). Near Fine binding.
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  • Publisher David McKay
  • Place of Publication Philadelphia
  • Date Published 1889
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Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams

Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams

by (WHITMAN, Walt). TRAUBEL, Horace, edited by

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Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's cloth gilt. Spine ends slightly bumped else very near fine. A tribute to Whitman on his seventieth birthday, containing an "Autobiographic Note & Response" by Whitman. This anthology also includes a poem by Ernest Rhys, Horace Traubel's essay "Recorders Ages Hence," and letters or addresses by Mark Twain, Richard Watson Gilder, Julian Hawthorne, Hamlin Garland, William Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, John Burroughs, Richard Bucke, Edmund Clarence Stedman, William Dean Howells, John G. Whittier, and many others. A very nice copy of a scarce title.
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