A Dialogue" [in] The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review vol. XVII, no. 89 [November 1845]
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- New York: J. L. O'Sullivan and O. C. Gardiner, 1845
New York: J. L. O'Sullivan and O. C. Gardiner, 1845. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Blue printed wrappers; [321]-400,[8]pp; 8pp of ads at rear, and ads to wrappers; steel mezzotint frontispiece portrait. Sound and whole, apart from chips at head and tail; slight foxing to wrappers, but generally clean and bright: Very Good.
Contains the first appearance of "A Dialogue [Against Capital Punishment]" (pp. 360-374), Whitman's "contribution to the progressive campaign to abolish the death penalty" (Susan Belasco Smith, The Walt Whitman Archive). Whitman contributed only one other nonfiction piece to the magazine, a self-authored review of his own Leaves of Grass. MYERSON E197.
Contains the first appearance of "A Dialogue [Against Capital Punishment]" (pp. 360-374), Whitman's "contribution to the progressive campaign to abolish the death penalty" (Susan Belasco Smith, The Walt Whitman Archive). Whitman contributed only one other nonfiction piece to the magazine, a self-authored review of his own Leaves of Grass. MYERSON E197.