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CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE)
by WHITMAN, Walt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case. Original green cloth. Edited with an introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21446: Issue A; Meyerson A14.I.b1. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman with Doyle and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. This book marks the first separate publication (outside of LEAVES OF GRASS) of Whitman's Calamus poems devoted to male romantic relationships. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by another of Whitman's literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, on 9 January 1898 to renowned author Mary Mapes Dodge, the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century. For more than 30 years Dodge edited ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, the primary magazine for children at the time. She also wrote the classic HANS BRINKER, OR THE SILVER SKATES.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019351
- Title
- CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE)
- Author
- WHITMAN, Walt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Laurens Maynard
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Signed, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Inscribed, Children's Literature, Mary Mapes Dodge, Gay Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Inscribed; 19th Century American Literature; 19th Century Literature;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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