Whitman, Walt

8vo (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 197 x 128 mm). "Remembrance Copy" leaf and leaves with Samuel Hollyer engraving printed on verso and W. J. Linton engraving on coated paper printed on verso, followed by blank binder's leaf, title-page, advertisement leaf at end. Original dark purplish red cloth, covers with blindstamped triple-ruled frame, upper cover gilt-lettered, all edges gilt, light green embossed endpapers; minimal wear, some spotting on front free endpaper. Buckram clamshell-case.

Joseph C. Baldwin (presentation inscription).

Feinberg 294; Myerson A8.1.a; Wells & Goldsmith pp. 19–20

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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First edition, second issue, with the desirable "Remembrance Copy" leaf. Presentation copy, inscribed by Whitman to Joseph C. Baldwin of Louella, Penn., on the "Remembrance Copy" leaf. "Almost every copy was autographed and it is improbable that more than a hundred copies were issued. The book is exceedingly rare" (Wells & Goldsmith). A very good copy.

Memoranda of the War consists of Whitman's first-person observations of the war, written 1863–65.  It was later incorporated into Specimen Days.