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WHITMAN, Walt (1819–1892). Autograph note on postcard signed (“Walt Whitman”), to J. W. Weideweyer of Appleton’s Cyclopedia, Camden, New Jersey, 8 December 1886.
One–page, oblong 12mo (76 x 133 mm), with holograph address on verso in Whitman’s hand.
[Laid into:] WHITMAN. Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, [1900]. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations and facsimiles. Contemporary half green morocco gilt, marbled sides, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, compartments framed in gilt with gilt–lettering in two, top edge gilt (spine gently darkened, some staining to covers near spine, text block fore edge lightly dampstained slightly affecting several margins). Later edition.