With autograph card and signed photograph, WALT WHITMAN, 1876

With autograph card and signed photograph
Walt Whitman, 1876
WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Two Rivulets Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India. Camden, 1876.

First edition, first printing, with the author's autograph card and signed sepia photograph: "Dear Sir yours of 10th enclosing #10 received—Walt Whitman." The note, dated 11 March 1881, is accompanied by the front of the original envelope, addressed by Whitman to Richard Hoe Lawrence of New York City and tipped to the flyleaf. The photograh of the author is signed and dated: "Walt Whitman 1881." Richard Hoe Lawrence (1858-1936) was the president of the Grolier Club from 1906-1908. He was the great-nephew of Grolier Club co-founder and first president, the legendary bibliophile Robert Hoe III. BAL 21413; Meyerson A9.1a.

Octavo (115 x 192mm). One leaf publisher's advertisement at end. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author signed and dated and inserted before the title page. Original white half calf, marbled boards, yellow-coated endpapers (spine lacking, covers detached, worn). Provenance: Richard Hoe Lawrence (bookplate and note) – Walt Whitman Collection of Dr Leonard R. Levine (1924-2000; Christie's New York, 14 December 2000, Lot 170).