Rare broadside Walt Whitman, 1872 WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Walt Whitman's Books . [Washington, D.C. 1872.] A rare broadside designed by Walt Whitman for distribution in bookstores. RBH records only two copies selling at auction in the past 20 years. It advertises four of the author's most recent publications, together with a biography of Whitman by his friend John Burroughs. Leaves of Grass , first published in 1855 and continually revised until Whitman's death, was in its fifth edition by 1871-72. Democratic Vistas , a lengthy prose work originally intended for publication in Galaxy magazine, was first published in 1871 by J.S. Redfield. Myerson F94; Tane & Karbiener, Poet of the Body , 241. Broadside (495 x 635mm). On paper (trimmed with loss of border in all but the lower left corner, laid down, closed tear extending from bottom edge, browning). Provenance : Walt Whitman Collection of Dr Leonard R. Levine (1924-2000; Christie's New York, 14 December 2000, Lot 164).
Rare broadside Walt Whitman, 1872 WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Walt Whitman's Books . [Washington, D.C. 1872.] A rare broadside designed by Walt Whitman for distribution in bookstores. RBH records only two copies selling at auction in the past 20 years. It advertises four of the author's most recent publications, together with a biography of Whitman by his friend John Burroughs. Leaves of Grass , first published in 1855 and continually revised until Whitman's death, was in its fifth edition by 1871-72. Democratic Vistas , a lengthy prose work originally intended for publication in Galaxy magazine, was first published in 1871 by J.S. Redfield. Myerson F94; Tane & Karbiener, Poet of the Body , 241. Broadside (495 x 635mm). On paper (trimmed with loss of border in all but the lower left corner, laid down, closed tear extending from bottom edge, browning). Provenance : Walt Whitman Collection of Dr Leonard R. Levine (1924-2000; Christie's New York, 14 December 2000, Lot 164).
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