Publication details: Philadelphia, PA: David McKay,1891,
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Inscribed by the author on his frontispiece portrait: 'Walt Whitman (Sculptor's profile, May 1891)'.'A gathering together of brief prose pieces and of poems that Whitman had previously [...] left unpublished. The poet himself referred to them as "little tags and fringe dots (maybe specks, stains)"' (Stark & Gordon, 'Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass' )
FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece, tissue guard, a few very faint spots to prelims, pp.66, 8vo, original maroon bevel-edged buckram, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board, hint of fading to backstrip and slight rubbing at tips, a smattering of spots to front endpapers, very good
Bibliography: (BAL 21440: Shay p.30: Walt Whitman. A Catalog [Library of Congress],334: Wells & Goldsmith p.34)
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