INSCRIBED BY HORACE TRAUBEL

November Boughs.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888.

Price: $900.00


About the item

Only edition, third printing. Portrait of Elias Hicks in text. Pp. 140, [1, ad]. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED BY HORACE TRAUBEL. Original green beveled cloth stamped in gilt, t.e.g. BAL 21430 (printing 3, probably issued by the Executors in 1891); Myerson A12.3. Provenance : Charles Heartman Nov. 7, 1919 (as per pencil note at back).

Item #317455

Inscribed on the ffep: "To John Malone with the admiration of Horace Traubel Jul. 1896."

"These sheets are probably the 400 copies printed in May, 1891. . . . It seems probable . . . that after Whitman's death his executors had these sheets and the remainder of Good-Bye My Fancy [a copy of which we also have on offer] bound in uniform, but separate, bindings." (BAL 21430, printing 3).