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at Whitman's graveside

(WHITMAN, WALT.) Horace Traubel, ed.. At the graveside of Walt Whitman: Harleigh, Camden, New Jersey, March 30th and Sprigs of Lilac.

Philadelphia, 1892

Original wrappers. Printed on heavy gray paper. Untrimmed and unopened. Upper wrapper with erasures and detached.

First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Whitman’s friend and literary executor Horace Trouble to W. W. Clews and further inscribed by Traubel: “Edition: 750 / Number 382 / Horace L. Traubel.”

This memorial volume is a collection of eulogies read at Whitman’s funeral by his friends together with letters by friends and admirers such as Tennyson who could not attend.

$500