With Walt Whitman in Camden, by Horace Traubel
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC HANDLIST
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VOLUME 3:
Bibliographic Description

ITEM [3]
Mitchell Kennerley, 1914
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Title Page:
WITH | WALT WHITMAN | IN CAMDEN | (November 1, 1888--January 20, 1889) | [short rule 17 mm] | HORACE TRAUBEL | [publisher's device: "MK" enclosed in circle] | NEW YORK | MITCHELL KENNERLEY | 1914
Collation:
(15.2 x 22.2 cm) [unsigned, 18(±14) 2-388], 304 leaves.
Pp. [4] [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-583 [584] 585-590 [4].
Contents:
i: half title "WITH WALT WHITMAN | IN CAMDEN | VOLUME THREE". ii: blank. iii: title. iv: copyright "Copyright 1914 by Horace Traubel | Copyright 1912 by The Century Company | Copyright 1912 by Mitchell Kennerley | THE PLIMPTON PRESS | NORWOOD MASS U S A". v: list of illustrations "ILLUSTRATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME" vi: blank. vii-viii: list of letters "LETTERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME | (INCLUDING OTHER MANUSCRIPTS OF | WALT WHITMAN)". ix: blank. x: epigraph. 1-583: conversations. 584: blank. 585-590: index "INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES".
Plates:
Frontispiece and fifteen leaves of plates printed on coated stock and inserted.
Binding:
Dark green fine ribbed cloth. Top and bottom edges trimmed. Top edge gilt. FRONT: Blind-stamped frame. SPINE: Gold-blocked intertwining leaves around lettering "WITH | WALT | WHITMAN | IN | CAMDEN | 3 | HORACE | TRAUBEL | MITCHELL | KENNERLEY".
Typography and Paper:
10/12 Scotch Roman text. Cream wove paper; no watermark.
Note to Item [3]:
  1. The title page in this volume was cancelled.
ITEM [3a]
Rowman and Littlefield, 1961
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Photolithographic re-impression of item [3], identical except for the following variant elements:

Title Page:
WITH | WALT WHITMAN | IN CAMDEN | (November 1, 1888--January 20, 1889) | [short rule 17 mm] | HORACE TRAUBEL | NEW YORK | ROWMAN AND LITTLEFIELD, INC. | 1961
Collation:
(14.5 x 21.8 cm) Pp. i-x 1-590.
Contents:
v: title (see above). iv: copyright "Copyright 1914 by Horace Traubel | Copyright 1912 by The Century Company | Copyright 1912 by Mitchell Kennerley | Library of Congress Catalog Number 61-14764 | This edition published by | Rowman and Littlefield, Inc | 84 Fifth Avenue | New York, 11 New York | 1961".
Plates:
All plates were printed together with the text. The original halftone plates were rescreened for this reprint, giving a noticeable moiré pattern.
Binding:
Medium green linen textured cloth. All edges trimmed. SPINE: Gold-blocked intertwined leaves around lettering "WITH | WALT | WHITMAN | IN | CAMDEN | 3 | HORACE | TRAUBEL | ROWMAN AND | LITTLEFIELD".
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