Author: WHITMAN, Walt
Title: An American Primer: With Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript
Description: San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1970. Paperback. Edited by Horace Traubel. Small 8vo. Stiff grey pictorial wrappers. (5pp), 35pp. Illustration. Very good. Mild edgewear, with abrasion at lower right of front wrapper, else internally near fine. A tight and nice first of this edition, being a facsimile of Traubel's 1904 first edition. Inside front wrapper bears a fine archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full in turquoise fineline by famed Walt Whitman scholar and biographer GAY WILSON ALLEN (1903-95), who in 1981 authored the Pulitzer Prize-nominated "Waldo Emerson: A Biography. .

Keywords: Americana


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