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Hardcover, off-white cloth lettered in gold on spine, no dust-jacket as issued. 319 pages. Bibliographical Note and Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. Acting as Whitman’s Boswell, these interviews during the last years of the poet’s life provide a window not only into the poet, but on the general state of intellectual life in 19th-century America. Brand new copy of the hardcover edition, now quite scarce.