Author: WHITMAN, Walt
Title: November Boughs
Description: Philadelphia, David McKay, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. BAL 21430: Printing 3. Winship believes this is one of 400 copies printed in 1891 and intended by Whitman to be bound with GOODBYE MY FANCY until illness prevented him from pursuing his plans. SIGNED by the author on the front blank and INSCRIBED by Horace Traubel on the front free endpaper in 1903 to Larson Butler with initialled note below the inscription by Traubel stating that "this edn of N. B. bound in green was designed by W.W. for his friends, not for the market, + was never anywhere put on sale." Fine association. Few very small stains on front cover, front hinge gently cracked. Close to Fine with superb signature and inscription .

Keywords: Signed, Rare, Inscribed, Association, Walt Whitman: 19th Century American Literature Poetry Literature: American 19th Century Literature Signed


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