[ANOTHER COPY]. Second issue, with the "Small, Maynard" imprint and device on the spine. Offered with a related volume: Symonds, J. A. WALT WHITMAN: A STUDY. London: Nimmo, 1893. First trade edition. Publisher's two-tone green cloth. In chapter V ("Love of Comrades") Symonds wrote about 'Calamus' and Peter Doyle. When pressed by Symonds, Walt Whitman concocted a far fetched tale of an active heterosexual life, complete with a son... "somewhere." The pair:
PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $150-250
