Whitman

by Edgar Lee Masters

INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Hardbound, 1st edition, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY 1937. SEE our PHOTOs on main page under "Suze". First Edition Stated (Scribner's A), Hardbound green cloth, black border and decoration, gilt tiles, b&w. Frontispiece photo of Whitman with facsimile signature. Signed by author on front end paper to my Aunt For GB with the compliments of Edgar Lee Masters, Xmas 1942. Pages clean & bright, binding tight. Never read. overall mild sunning on front & fly pages & page edges, Green Boards w/gilt lettering. Some fading on spine to lettering. 342 indexed pp. Dust jacket has some edge wear and sunning on spine but very much intact and in good condition. FREE insurance & tracking. Money back guarantee. smoke-free home. Next day shipping. More digital photo's available, click on seller's name to send request.

342 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.