Whitman, Walt; edited by Richard Maurice Bucke; The Wound Dresser : A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington During the War of the Rebellion; Boston: Small, Maynard & Company 1898. 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2nd State. ix, 201 pages. Hardcover.
American Literature Biography And Memoirs - Authors US Civil War Military Medicine Myerson A15.I.b2 BAL 21448
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First American Edition, First Printing, Second State. The publisher's logo was off-center when printed (First State), so all but a handful of copies have a cancel (replacement) title page inserted (Second State). This copy has the cancel title page with a centered logo. Compiled by Whitman's literary executor, Richard Maurice Bucke, The Wound Dresser contains his noted poem "The Dresser" (1865), three newspaper columns "The Great Army of the Wounded" printed in the New York Times in 1863, "Life among Fifty Thousand Soldiers" printed in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1863, and "Hospital Visits" printed in the New York Times in 1863, followed by Whitman's letters to his mother during the Civil War in 1862-3 and 1864. Joel Myerson; Walt Whitman : A Descriptive Bibliography, A 15.I.b2. Jacob Blanck; Bibliography of American Literature; BAL 21448. First Edition of this uncommon insight into Whitman's experiences helping severely wounded Civil War soldiers.

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