WHITMAN, Walt (Horace L. Traubel - editor). Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams. (FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY WHITMAN - 1889)

AUTHOR: WHITMAN, Walt (Horace L. Traubel - editor)

TITLE: Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams.

PUBLISHER: Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889.

DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY WHITMAN. 1 vol., frontis, signed on the front blank endleaf "Walt Whitman Dec: 16 '89", original publisher's gilt stamped brick red cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut.

CONDITION: Light rubbing to the head and foot of spine without loss, inner and outer hinges fine, VERY GOOD.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: One of apparently 12 copies signed on this day.

"Except for certain copies Traubel mailed, distribution of most local copies was in the hands of Attorney Thomas B. Harned and Judge Charles G. Garrison of Camden. Traubel's entry about Whitman for December 16, 1889 is both typical and telling: "Harned, he said, had just left the house. . . . He brought me down a dozen copies of your book. It seems that Judge Garrison is to take them, and wants my signature. Oh yes! I shall sign them - sign them for Tom and for the Judge, both, for their sakes.""

See the "Walt Whitman Quarterly Review" - Vol. 7 No. 2 pp.79-87.