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Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher’s dust-jacket. 179 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. A reevaluation of Whitman’s beginnings, arguing for a heightened influence of the Romantic poets over Emerson and an historical examination of Whitman’s self-promotion as being more impromptu than previously argued are just a few of the revisions Price plumbs. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, clean, fresh copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.