With Walt Whitman in Camden (March 28 - July 14, 1888)

  • London: Gay & Bird, 1906
By [WHITMAN] TRAUBEL, Horace
London: Gay & Bird, 1906. First Edition. First printing. British issue, with Gay & Bird imprint on spine and title page (published in America by Small & Maynard). Octavo. Gilt-decorated green cloth; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; xvi,473pp; frontispiece and 33 unnumbered leaves of plates (most tipped-in on sepia stock); facsimile of Whitman's Last Will & Testament tipped in (as issued) after half-title. A bright, attractive copy with a bit of mild foxing to prelims, easily Very Good.

Extracts from Traubel's journal kept during Whitman's final months, quite fancily done up with portraits and facsimiles. A nice copy.

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