Description

Large format softbound volume with printed card covers and spiral metal binding. 65 pages. Contains four walking tours through Manhattan as follows: Tracking Walt Whitman Through Manhattan in the 1840’s: A Walk Through Printing House Square and Environs; Tracking Edgar Allen Poe, New York Journalist, Through Publisher’s Row; A Walk Through the SoHo Historical District with Walt Whitman; A Walk Through Herman Melville’s New York During the Years 1819-1855. Illustrated with monochrome reproductions of contemporary engravings and pictures, as well as four full page maps each relating to one tour. Presumed first printing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and remarkably well preserved copy of this very scarce window into the haunts of Whitman, Melville and Poe, brought to life some one-hundred and fifty years after they strolled the streets and avenues below 14th street in New York City. As new.