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WHITMAN (WALT)Leaves of Grass; Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India, together 2 works, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, inscribed "William Minturn from the author" on the front free endpaper of each volume, 'Leaves of Grass' additionally SIGNED ("WALT WHITMAN") ON TITLE, 'Two Rivulets' with frontispiece of an ALBUMEN PRINT PORTRAIT OF WHITMAN SIGNED ("Walt Whitman 1878"), advertisement leaf at end of each volume, yellow endpapers, original cream half morocco, gilt morocco spine labels, spines age soiled and chipped at head, upper joint of "Two Rivulets" slightly weakened [BAL 21412, 21413], 8vo, Camden, New Jersey, Author's Edition, 1876 (2)FootnotesPRESENTATION COPIES INSCRIBED BY WHITMAN TO THE AMERICAN AUTHOR WILLIAM MINTURN. Whitman recorded in this daybook a meeting with Minturn in New York on 16 January 1878, during which they talked "about Emile Zola of Paris, Dante Rossetti, Swinburne & O'Shaughnessy". Minturn, whose Travels in the West had been published in 1877, had spent time in Paris (where he was to be buried at the famous Père Lachaise cemetery), meeting Zola who had expressed admiration for Leaves of Grass. Provenance: William Minturn (1853-1882), gift inscriptions from the author, and bookplate in each volume.