Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times
New York: Random House, 1929.
Price: $85.00
Hardcover. First hardcover edition. One of 700 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Trifle rubbed at the crown, slightly spine faded, about fine. Walt Whitman's first book and only novel, a short extravagant temperance novel issued as a separate supplement to *The New World*, a monthly newspaper in 1842. The literary debut of one of the most important authors in all of American literature. An affordable alternative to the prohibitively expensive true first edition.
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Walt Whitman
birth name: Walter Whitman
born: 5/31/1819
died: 3/26/1892
nationality: USA
Biography
American journalist, essayist, and poet whose style of writing in such works as Leaves of Grass (first edition, 1855) revolutionized American literature. Such poems as "I Sing the Body Electric" and "Song of Myself" asserted the beauty of the human body, physical health, and sexuality. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore