Decorated maroon cloth, frontispiece portrait of Whitman after a sculpture by Sidney H. Morse. BAL 21436. SIGNED by the great poet on the front endpaper and dated "Dec: 16 '89." The earliest inscribed copy noted by Blanck was in November, and we are aware of at least 3 copies of this book signed on the same December date. This tribute to Whitman on his seventieth birthday contains one contribution by him--"Autobiographic Note & Response"--as well as contributions by Ernest Rhys, Horace Traubel, Mark Twain, Richard Watson Gilder, Julian Hawthorne, Hamlin Garland, William Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, John Burroughs, Richard Bucke, Edmund Clarence Stedman, William Dean Howells, John G. Whittier, and others. "Except for certain copies Traubel mailed, distribution of most local copies was in the hands of Attorney Thomas B. Harned and Judge Charles G. Garrison of Camden. Traubel's entry about Whitman for December 16, 1889 is both typical and telling: 'Harned, he said, had just left the house. He brought me down a dozen copies of your book. It seems that Judge Garrison is to take them, and wants my signature. Oh yes! I shall sign them -- sign them for Tom and for the Judge, both, for their sakes'" (WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, Fall1989, Vol. 7 No. 2, pages 79-87). With a copy of the issue of WALT WHITMAN QUARTERLY REVIEW and accompanying miscellaneous items. Pastedowns and endpapers somewhat discolored due to glue in binding with little effect on the signed page; slight fading to spine. Near Fine with a fine signature.

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Title

CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN. MAY 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams

Publisher

David McKay, Philadelphia

Publication Date

1889

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

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