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Hardcover, gray cloth spine lettered in silver over white author embossed boards, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 447 pages. Illustrated with just under 30 photographs, holograph documents, etc. Stated first edition thus, first printing with full numbr line. A title in the New York Library Collector Series, this volume contains suggestions for further reading, a checklist of illustrations and a poetry title index. In addition to introductory essays about Walt Whitman and specifically about this edition, the numerous verse selections are augmented by four prose works: Preface to the First (1855) edition; Open Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856); A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads and An American Primer (published posthumously). No previous ownership marks. An pristine, unmarked and unread copy, as new in an as new dust-jacket.