WHITMAN, Walt

After All, Not to Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871

First edition. Blanck's Binding B: Terra-cotta beveled cloth (no priority established), brown endpapers, topedge plain, triple endpapers. Slight paper remnant on the front pastedown, and a contemporary owner name ("Herbert A. Pratt 1874") on the first blank, else a tight and fine copy, with very minor wear. BAL 21405.

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