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The Library of a Deceased Irish Collector
Lot 231

WHITMAN (WALT)
Complete Poems & Prose... 1855...1888, [Philadelphia, Ferguson, 1888]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WHITMAN (WALT)

Complete Poems & Prose... 1855...1888, LIMITED TO 600 COPIES signed by the author, limitation notice in hand of Whitman's later executor Horace Traubel on verso of 'Note at the Beginning', half-tone title, 3 plates, dark brown crushed morocco by Lehmann Bindery, t.e.g. [BAL 21431], 8vo, [Philadelphia, Ferguson, 1888]

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