Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.
New York: Basic Books, [1984]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xi, 372pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Item #46147
ISBN: 0465090591
Tight and bright first edition. Interestingly, front pastedown bears an archival decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full in turquoise ink by Gay Wilson Allen (1903-95), famed Whitman scholar and biographer ("The Solitary Singer," 1955) who in 1981 authored the Pulitzer-nominated "Waldo Emerson: A Biography."
Price: $75.00
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