Author: WHITMAN, George Washington
Title: CIVIL War Letters of George Washington Whitman
Description: Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Edited by Jerome M. Loving. Foreword by Gay Wilson Allen. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 173pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with jacket spine sunned and couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears. A tight and attractive first edition of this correspondence by poet Walt Whitman's younger brother, who served with the 51st New York Volunteers. Nice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is an archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full by famed Walt Whitman biographer Gay Wilson Allen (1903-95), who in 1981 authored the Pulitzer Prize-nominated "Waldo Emerson: A Biography. .

Keywords: Civil War


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