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First printing thus. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine. no dust-jacket [as issued?]. 227 pages. Index. Editor’s note by Charles Vale. Re-issue of the 1921 first edition. As Whitman’s nurse during his final illness, Mrs. Keller learned much about the poet’s early years in Camden, New Jersey, including much about his house-keeper Mrs. Davis. Published in her eighty-second year, this is Mrs. Keller’s version of that story. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, clean, fresh and unmarked copy. As new.