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Hardcover, light brown cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher’s white and brown non price-clipped dust-jacket. 522 pages. With Appendices, Notes, Bibliography and Index. First edition, published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press under the aegis of Associated University Presses, Inc. A study of the ‘purported’ Indian influences on Whitman’s poetry based on the religious and literary texts available in the public libraries of New York in the years just prior to the publication of “Leaves of Grass”. No previous ownership marks. Evidence of small retail price sticker removed from inside front cover, else a clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket shows a single short tear, now tape repaired on verso, and general finger soiling. Near fine in a good dust-jacket.