Signed by the author on the title page. Catalogue is in full color with many photographs and illustrations. There are two short essays about Whitman as a book maker and about the books he wrote. A list of the original book prices is included in the rear of the volume. Very light wear overall. ii , 80 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo.
Ed Folsom, the Roy J. Carver professor of English at the University of Iowa, is the editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, codirector of the online Whitman Archive, and editor of the Whitman Series at the University of Iowa Press. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.