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MARY PUTNAM LOWELL'S COPY. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892 Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C.: [New York: printed for the author by J.S. Redfield], 1871.
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MARY PUTNAM LOWELL'S COPY.
WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892 Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C.: [New York: printed for the author by J.S. Redfield], 1871.
8vo (208 x 120 mm). Publisher's light green wrappers, printed in black, spine perished, chipping, remnants of glue, first few pages detached.
Provenance: Mary Putnam Lowell (author and scholar, sister of poet James Russell Lowell, blindstamp to title page); collection of Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher; sold to our consignor.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, MARY LOWELL'S COPY. Democratic Vistas is built on three essays on democracy and individualism, part of Whitman's attempt to redefine the American project. Writing on the heels of the Civil War, and at the dawning of the Gilded Age, he observes, "Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. Genuine belief seems to have left us...." Mary Putnam Lowell was an American author, the sister of James Russell Lowell, and a staunch advocate for African American rights through her fiction. Myerson A4.1.a.
8vo (208 x 120 mm). Publisher's light green wrappers, printed in black, spine perished, chipping, remnants of glue, first few pages detached.
Provenance: Mary Putnam Lowell (author and scholar, sister of poet James Russell Lowell, blindstamp to title page); collection of Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher; sold to our consignor.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, MARY LOWELL'S COPY. Democratic Vistas is built on three essays on democracy and individualism, part of Whitman's attempt to redefine the American project. Writing on the heels of the Civil War, and at the dawning of the Gilded Age, he observes, "Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. Genuine belief seems to have left us...." Mary Putnam Lowell was an American author, the sister of James Russell Lowell, and a staunch advocate for African American rights through her fiction. Myerson A4.1.a.