1898, ISBN: d3e03f096c9eaa1c909a0985917a4750

Hardcover, First edition

[SC: 71.1], [PU: Small, Maynard & Company, Boston], SIGNED; 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE; INSCRIBED; CHILDREN'S MARY MAPES DODGE; CIVIL WAR, Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Edited w… More...

[SC: 71.1], [PU: Small, Maynard & Company, Boston], SIGNED; 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE; INSCRIBED; CHILDREN'S MARY MAPES DODGE; CIVIL WAR, Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Edited with a preface by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21448: Issue 2; Meyerson A15.1.a. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman from a photograph by Gardner. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by another of Whitman's literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, on 20 February 1898 to renowned author Mary Mapes Dodge, the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century. For more than 30 years Dodge edited ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, the primary magazine for children at the time. She also wrote the classic HANS BRINKER, OR THE SILVER SKATES. Below Harned's inscription in an unknown hand is written the following quote from "George Fox (and Shakspere)" in NOVEMBER BOUGHS: "I say whoever labors here, makes contributions here, or best of all sets an incarnated example here, of life or death, is dearest to humanity—remains after the rest are gone." Largely unopened; slight paper split to front hinge but covers very tight and firm; offsetting from newspaper clipping between two initial blanks. Fine copy<

1898, ISBN: d3e03f096c9eaa1c909a0985917a4750

Hardcover

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. good+. 12mo; viii, 201 pages, maroon cloth, t.e.g, two edges untrimmed, bumped. First issue, with the publis… More...

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. good+. 12mo; viii, 201 pages, maroon cloth, t.e.g, two edges untrimmed, bumped. First issue, with the publisher's device off-center to the left, and the 1897 copyright date. [ BAL 21448; Myerson A15.1.a; Wells & Goldsmith pp. 40–41 ]. Portrait frontispiece from a photo by Gardner. " I do not believe that it is in the power of any man now living to make an important addition to the vivid picture drawn by Whitman himself and to be found in his published prose and verse, and, above all, in the living words of the present letters to his mother." - Preface by Bucke. Heliotyped photograph of Mother. Whitman., Small, Maynard & Company, 1898<