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Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 264 pages. Notes, Index. First edition, first printing. “From March 1846 until January 1848, Whitman served as the editor of the widely read Brooklyn Daily Eagle, writing over 800 editorials, political commentaries, news stories, short reviews about literature, and two very early poems. In his early years the poet served as editor on a number of newspapers, the Brooklyn daily Eagle being on of his longest tenures. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.