Autograph Letter, signed, to a Massachusetts collector of Whitman, negotiating for a copy of the 1871-2 Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman, David McKay

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

3 pp. rectos only , ink on paper, Parker House stationery. 8vo. Old folds. Fine. Item #367516 Whitman’s publisher David McKay writes to the Reverend L.M. Powers of Somerville at the suggestion of William Sloan Kennedy 1850-1929 , in search of a copy of the 1871-2 edition of Leaves of Grass, asking the Reverend to name his price or to accept in exchange a finely bound copy of the Autograph Edition of Whiman’s Poetry and Prose that

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