Lot 181
  • 181

Whitman, Walt

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • Whitman, Walt
  • The Wound Dresser. A Series of Letters Written from Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.
  • printed book
8vo (7 7/8 x 5 in.; 200 x 127 mm, uncut and unopened). Frontispiece and 2 other plates on japan paper. Original dark red buckram, printed paper spine label; chip in upper edge of spine label. Half brown morocco; some wear.

Literature

BAL 21448; Myerson A15.1.a; Wells & Goldsmith pp40–41

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue.
One of only 60 large-paper copies, signed by R. M. Bucke;
this copy out-of-series. 
A superb unopened copy.