Walt Whitman in Mickle Street

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921.

Price: $100.00

Hardcover. First edition. Offsetting from former bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in fine, minutely soiled dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of this memoir by Whitman's nurse during his last illness in Camden. Jacket features a painting of the Mickle Street house by Marsden Hartley.

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Item #25108 Walt Whitman in Mickle Street. Elizabeth Leavitt KELLER.

Walt Whitman
birth name: Walter Whitman
born: 5/31/1819
died: 3/26/1892
nationality: USA

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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

Collecting tips:

Whitman may well be the great American poet. Because he published so much of his own work, his bibliography can be complicated and detailed. Leaves of Grass (first edition, 1855 - but which he continued to expand upon for most of the rest of his life) exists in two states, and at least three bindings, but suffice it to say that any copy dated in 1855 is desirable, and will be commensurately expensive.more