Description

Hardcover, original worn blue cloth covers, no dust-jacket. 330 pages. With a list of Whitman’s more important volumes and an index. Illustrated with frontispiece and eleven full page photographic plates. First edition of this important Pulitzer-Prize winning biography. A worn copy with spine strip split at both outer joints, albeit attached but lacking two large chips. Book itself is tight and internally clean with no previous ownership marks, underlining or highlighting. A good working copy of an uncommon and important monograph. Fair.