WHITMAN, WALT | As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free and Other Poems. Washington, D.C.: [S. W. Green for Walt Whitman], 1872

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WHITMAN, WALT

As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free and Other Poems. Washington, D.C.: [S. W. Green for Walt Whitman], 1872

8vo (8 x 4 1/2 in.; 203 x 114 mm). Original green buckram, upper cover gilt-lettered; spine ends a trifle frayed, minor wear at edges.

First edition. Issued as a supplement a few months after the Washington edition of Leaves of Grass.

REFERENCE:

BAL 21408

PROVENANCE:

Johnston (?) Hunt (signature, Shanghai, May 1894)