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WHITMAN, WALT Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India. Camden, New Jersey: 1876. Author's Edition with a signed albumen photograph of Whitman dated (with the date of his birth) mounted as a frontispiece, first edition (issue with a blank leaf between "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" and "Memoranda During the War"). Contemporary three quarters calf over marbled boards, the spine rebacked to style in modern leather with lettering label. 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (19 x 11 cm); 32, [1 blank leaf], 84, [1 blank leaf], 18, [1 blank leaf], [iv], v-x, [4], 14, [2], [1 blank leaf], 68 [1 blank leaf], [i-iii], iv, [1], 6-120, [1 blank leaf], [1 Ad leaf]. Spotting to title, frontis and endleaves, endpapers preserved but with similarly colored strengthening strips at hinges, original portions of binding rubbed and worn. This copy conforms to BAL 21413, a reissue of the first edition, first printing sheets with the frontispiece caption in three lines and the ad leaf headed "Autograph and Portrait Edition of Walt Whitman's Complete Works." C Property of a Maine Collector