Good-Bye My Fancy: 2nd Annex to Leaves of Grass

WHITMAN, Walt

Verlag: David McKay, Philadelphia, 1891

Beschreibung

First edition, Binding C (green cloth; the third binding) with the frontispiece in style 1 (no priority); the so-called "Large-Paper Edition". One of 1000 copies printed, of which a small number were bound in "green cloth in a large-paper format" after Whitman's death. Myerson A13. Wells & Goldsmith p. 34. Copies in Binding B (red cloth) & Binding C (green cloth) were never offered for sale. Good-Bye My Fancy contains thirty-one poems and seven essays, including "An Old Man's Rejoinder", "Old Poets", "For Queen Victoria's Birthday", "American National Literature", "Gathering The Corn", "A Death Bouquet", and numerous short occasional pieces. Inscribed by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's earliest biographers, to "Edith Maclure Love from her friend R. M. Bucke, Asylum, London, Ontario, 16 June 1900." With a gift inscription from Ms. Love, signed "Mun", below. Dr. Bucke was the head of the Asylum for the Insane in London, Ontario, and the author of Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. He was a friend of Whitman's, and one of his literary executors. Love was an American and the Director of Physical Training for Women at Indiana State Normal School. Light offsetting to endpapers, extremities a trifle rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 12519

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Good-Bye My Fancy: 2nd Annex to Leaves of ...

Verlag: David McKay, Philadelphia

Erscheinungsdatum: 1891

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: First Edition.