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The Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher Collection of Whitmaniana
Lot 152

HORACE TRAUBEL PRESENTATION TO MAX BRESLOW.
TRAUBEL, HORACE. 1858-1919.
Good-bye and Hail Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: Billestein & Son, 1892.

21 November 2023, 10:00 EST
New York

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HORACE TRAUBEL PRESENTATION TO MAX BRESLOW.

TRAUBEL, HORACE. 1858-1919. Good-bye and Hail Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: Billestein & Son, 1892.
8vo. Publisher's grey wrappers, printed title on upper cover. Front wrapper detached, corners bumped with chipping to wrappers, browning at edges, light soiling.
Provenance: Max Breslow; Collection of Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher; sold to our consignor.

MAX BRESLOW'S PRESENTATION COPY, signed by Horace Traubel on the title page, and inscribed on the front wrapper "To Max Breslow, my comrade worker in New York. Aug 5th 1914. Horace Traubel." In his Adventures in American Bookstores, Guido Bruno describes Breslow's 23rd St bookstore (he would eventually open Books for Bookish People on the famed "Book Row"), which "...you almost fall into... from the street, so steep are the stairs and tread-worn... His hobby is Walt Whitman. He has the most famous collection of Whitman items in this country, even larger and more extensive than the one Horace Traubel has guarded. He has original manuscripts of Whitman, proof sheets of his books, everything that was ever written in any language about Walt Whitman, more than four hundred pictures of the 'good, gray poet,' and you couldn't buy one of those precious things for any money in the world."

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