Author: WHITMAN, WALT Title: Walt Whitman's Backward Glances: A Backward Glance O'Er Travel'd Roads and Two Contributory Essays Hitherto Uncollected
Description: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1947. Hardcover. Edited by Sculley Bradley and John A. Stevenson. Small 4to. Dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. viii, 51pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and touch of age toning. First edition of the first appearance of "A Backward Glance on My Own Road," with full facsimile of the poet's manuscript. Ownership signature on front flyleaf of Ernest Work, Iowa educator and member of The Walt Whitman Club -- one of the country's earliest Whitman groups, founded in Des Moines in 1895. .
Keywords: Literary Criticism Poetry
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 48784
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