Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889.
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Hardcover. First edition. Front hinge slightly tender and a couple of splash marks on the front board, a sound, very good copy. A tribute to Whitman on his seventieth birthday, containing an "Autobiographic Note & Response" by Whitman. This anthology also includes a poem by Ernest Rhys, Horace Traubel's essay "Recorders Ages Hence," and letters or addresses by 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 many others. Boldly Signed by Whitman on the front fly: "Walt Whitman, Dec: 16 '89." Scarce.
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