101 Presented By Whitman’s Literary Executor Horace Traubel To Whitman’s Publisher David McKay 166BURROUGHS, John. Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. New York, 1871. Octavo, original terra-cotta cloth. $950 Second edition, inscribed by Horace Traubel to Whitman’s publisher David McKay April 22, 1892, less than a month after the poet’s death. “In his later years, Burroughs was quite candid about the fact that substantial portions of Notes on Walt Whitman were read and revised by Whitman himself” (Renehan, 184-85). Dampstains on front cover, modest wear to corners and spine ends. An intriguing association copy. “We Are Apt To Think Of The Middle Ages As Having Been Somehow Specially Favoured” 167ELIOT, T.S. Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern. New York, 1954. Slim octavo, original burgundy cloth, glassine. $1500 Signed limited first edition of Eliot’s illuminating work on the value of religious drama, one of only 300 copies signed by T.S. Eliot. This work is the text of an address that Eliot delivered to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral in 1937, not long after he completed Murder in the Cathedral. Only most minor wear to fragile glassine, book fine. “A Manifesto Of Transcendentalism” 168EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston, 1836. Octavo, original blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth. $3300 First edition of Emerson’s first book. “[Emerson insists] in Nature on a line of thought as old as classical Stoicism: that the individual, in searching for a reliable ethical standpoint, for an answer to the question of how one should live one’s life, had to turn not to God, not to the polis or state, and not to society, but to nature for a useable answer” (from Richardson, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, 1986). Second state, with page 94 correctly numbered. Foxing to text, expert restoration to cloth, gilt bright. Very good. “Bring Out The Stars, Bring Out The Flowers” 169FROST, Robert. A Further Range. Book Six. New York, 1936. Octavo, original maroon cloth. $3800 First edition, inscribed by Frost with lines from his poem “All Revelation”: “— Bring out the stars, bring out the flowers, Thus concentrating earth and skies So none need be afraid of size—Robert Frost. For Ann E. Rowden. 1951.” A Further Range earned Frost the Pulitzer Prize for the best book of poetry published by an American author in 1936. Without original dust jacket. Minor offsetting to endpapers, cloth spine a bit toned.
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